· The service coordinated with the Red Cross can be requested until July 20th at 15.00hs
· This initiative involves 49 Local Assemblies of the Red Cross, which will provide maximum coverage in the Valencian Community, more than half a hundred vehicles and more than 100 volunteers
· The delegate of the Government and the regional president of the Red Cross have presented this service
The Government Delegation in the Valencian Community launches, in collaboration with the Red Cross, a free transport service for the election day on Sunday, July 23, to facilitate the right to vote in person to those who require it. The delegate of the Government, Pilar Bernabé, together with the autonomous president of the Red Cross, Rafael Gandía, has presented this morning this initiative that is oriented to the citizenship that needs this transport due to age, illness or mobility problems.
Bernabé recalled that “the service can be requested until July 20 at 3 p.m., by calling the Red Cross, or through the corresponding hospital center of the public network, in case of being admitted”. The delegate stressed “the need for this service that guarantees the transfer to the polling stations for those people who, due to a question of age or illness, cannot travel by their own means”.
The only phone to request the service is 965918610 (24hs from Monday to Friday) or through the email eleccionescv@cruzroja.es
During the election day of July 23 (from 9 am to 8 pm), Red Cross volunteers will pick up at the indicated point the people who have requested the service, either from their hospital center of entry, residence or home; they will transfer them to their electoral college, and they will take them back to the collection point.
To give maximum coverage to the operation, 49 Local Red Cross Assemblies will participate in the Valencian Community (23 in Alicante, 19 in Valencia and 7 in Castellón) with 56 vehicles (13 ambulances, 17 adapted and 26 transporting people) and 112 volunteers.
For his part, the President of the Red Cross has said that "it is very important to be at the service of people who chronically or temporarily suffer some physical impediment to travel to vote, and in that sense the Red Cross, as it does in all electoral calls, offers its human and material resources to facilitate their displacement."