Offering the fifth news break on the national elections on March 26, the president of the National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, said that with the closing Until 5:00 pm, 5,711,397 voters had gone to the polls, for 70.34% of the basic register of 8,120,072 voters.
He explained that this This figure is 1.71% higher than the referendum on the Family Code and 6.49% higher than the municipal electionsat the same moment of those processes.
He also recalled that on Sunday afternoon the CEN decided to extend voting hours for one more hour throughout the country, so that people who had not been able to reach the polling stations would have the opportunity to do so.
Balseiro affirmed that, in a general sense, the voting took place normally, without incidents, and popular enthusiasm and discipline when voting could be appreciated.
After the closure of the schools, the public scrutiny process began, which was disseminated -as established by law- by the different mass media. This is, he said, an act of transparency and adherence to the truth.
reported that the preliminary results on the total number of voters who exercised the right to vote this Sunday and on the quality of the vote, They will be released once the counting and validation process is completed..
