The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has called for the participation of the Melillense citizens in this election. “It has been just over 5,000 votes that have been deposited by post without any incident, just over 5% of the entire census of the more than 60,000 Melilla voters who can go to the polls. Therefore, I encourage the rest of the citizens, who have not yet exercised their right to vote, to do so”, they have requested.
He asked those who did not intend to vote today “to think again about the importance of today”, while pointing out that this right is so important “that we should make it practically a duty”.
“We know that it has taken a very long time for us to decide which representatives we want and therefore we have in our hands the power to do so by depositing our votes in the ballot box,” he said.
Police device
The Delegate of the Government has reported that, today, it is a quiet and uneventful day, in which all the polling stations have been constituted at 9 a.m. without any incident.
The police force, as he explained, has 240 members of the Local Police, who are competent to ensure the development inside the centers, as well as the accompaniment of the presiding officers once the day ends and also the transfer of the documentation at the beginning of the period.
The National Police has a total of 134 personnel. A lower number compared to the last elections on May 28, given that a quiet and uneventful day is taking place. “This device has been designed to meet the real needs of the moment,” he explained.
The National Police, to design the device, has distributed Melilla in four different sectors, and has a police presence in all educational centers, in the outdoor area, while there is a Z patrol that is available for any incident that may occur. To these troops are added the 177 of the Civil Guard, who do support work.
“A perfectly coordinated and organized device, divided by sectors, attending to the needs of each of the areas of our city and, of course, with operations that are available in case it were necessary to activate them, which I am sure not,” said Moh, while at the same time showing his appreciation to the Security Forces.
JEZ decision
With regard to the statements made by the President of the PP and local President, Juan José Imbroda, in which he accused the Government Delegation of making it difficult to vote for citizenship by changing from the La Salle-El Carmen school to the Central Market, Moh explained that this is a decision of the Zone Electoral Board (JEZ).
“It is true that the President has been President of the City for a few days but he was 20 years as President to know that who makes this change is not the Government Delegation but the Electoral Juna,” he said.
“The Electoral Board has determined that, due to the difficulties that have occurred in the center of La Salle, the voting tables will move to the Central Market,” he recalled. A fact that Imbroda himself knows because “the Electoral Board itself has urged the Autonomous City to condition the space so that there is no problem,” he added.
“It was not the Government Delegation, so I would ask the President of the City for more responsibility and, above all, not to lie,” Sabrina Moh asked.
Acknowledgements
In her speech, the head of the Government Delegation thanked the media professionals for the coverage of the election day that they are carrying out to offer the Melillense citizens all the information at first hand.
Continuing with the chapter of thanks, Moh has had words of praise both for the State Security Forces and Bodies and for the Local Police for the work they have developed and are developing with the aim of ensuring a safe and quiet day. “We have designed a device that started yesterday and will be developed until the end of the day,” he explained.
He also thanked all the staff of the General Administration of the State who are ensuring the proper functioning of this day in all educational centers and all the presidents, chairpersons of tables, spokespersons, interveners, representatives… “all the people who are participating today and ensuring for all Malian citizens we can exercise our right to vote.”
Finally, he thanked the cleaning staff, the toilets… and “all those people who today are doing their bit so that we can continue to enjoy this electoral period, that is, our democracy and, therefore, our free exercise of the right to vote”.