The Government Delegation in Cantabria and the regional government have formed a working group that will coordinate and prepare the electoral device scheduled for May 28, when the autonomous and municipal elections will be held.
The Government delegate in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, and the Minister of Presidency, Interior, Justice and External Action, Paula Fernández Viaña, presided on Monday, in the Government Delegation, on the constitution of this working group
Each of the public administrations is responsible for its electoral process and has the competence to announce the advances and the data of participation and the respective provisional results, although it is necessary to adopt, through this working group, certain common solutions that facilitate electoral management and allow to carry out the electoral operational complex effectively and efficiently.
Both the government delegate and the councilor thanked “the immense work” carried out by the officials of both administrations so that the electoral processes are carried out with “total normality” and their “involvement” so that “the coordination is absolute both in the previous organization and during the electoral day”.
In addition, in view of this coordination, Quiñones and Fernández Viaña have advanced that the agreement on electoral management between the State and the Autonomous Community will soon be signed, through which the functions and the distribution of expenses associated with the electoral process are articulated.
This agreement details the collaborative actions aimed at the organization of the polling stations, the material (ballot boxes, booths, signage, envelopes and ballot papers), the instruction manual for the people who make up the polling stations and the measures that facilitate the voting of voters residing abroad, as well as for the exercise of the vote of people with disabilities.
Likewise, based on this agreement, both administrations will favor the joint use of technologies applied to electoral management and systems for collecting, transmitting and processing electoral data.
Quiñones has indicated that the Government Delegation formed in early November last year the internal working groups for the organization, management and provision and control of State resources in the electoral system.
In this regard, he has detailed that, under the direction of the Secretary General of the Delegation, Francisco García Villa, specific groups have been created in the areas of Habilitation, Contracting, Representation of the Administration, Logistics and Informatics, the latter area being in charge of the databases.
For her part, the Minister of the Presidency explained that the Government of Cantabria will allocate 2.4 million euros for the elections to the Parliament of Cantabria. Currently, the Presidential Council has already awarded the contract for the supply of sepia colored ballot papers and envelopes, for a total amount of 180,000 euros.
In addition, for the first time, the Regional Executive will convene and organize the electoral processes for the election of the neighborhood boards, so Fernández Viaña has highlighted the importance of promoting “even more” coordination and thereby facilitating citizen participation also in these processes of election of the members and presidents of each of the boards.
Thus, the Government of Cantabria has specific work teams for the economic management and contracting of the necessary resources and logistics for the electoral process of the smaller local entities, all coordinated by the general secretariat of the Presidential Council, headed by Noelia García.