European elections: scrutineers, boom in waivers
Polling stations regularly open, in Italy, for the European elections and for the election of the new president and the Council of the Piedmont Region and the mayors and councils of over 3,700 municipalities, including Florence, Bari, Cagliari, Perugia, Potenza, Campobasso, Pescara, Bergamo, Caltanissetta, Vibo Valentia. We vote today until 11pm and tomorrow, from 7am to 11pm. Tomorrow evening, after the polls close, the counting for the European elections will take place, and from 2pm on Monday the counting for the local elections.
In several cities, from North to South, there are problems due to the resignation of some polling station presidents and the failure of scrutineers to show up at the assigned polling station. Problems – it should be noted – are in the process of being resolved
In Cagliari there is a boom in refusals for members of polling stations
As Ansa writes, boom in refusals by polling station presidents and scrutineers for this round of election day in Cagliari, where people vote for the European and municipal elections. The Municipality announced that there was an increase in waste which even exceeded that recorded for the regional elections at the end of February. On Wednesday the 5th there was also an appeal launched, through a press release, to search for polling station presidents. According to what we have learned, the administration solved the problem partly with this expression of interest launched in the press and on social channels and, partly, with last minute calls. This morning, however, everything had already been resolved and the seats in the 210 sections of Cagliari were able to be settled regularly.
EUROPEAN: IN PALERMO OVER 1,700 SCOUTERS ARE GIVING UP, SUBSTITUTES ARE BEING SEEKED
There are over 1,700 people from Palermo who renounced their letters of appointment as scrutineers a few hours before the elections. Out of 2,400 people drawn, more than half gave up and now the Municipality is looking for replacements. The scrutineers show up at schools to take up their duties, but there are those who fear that the chaos that occurred in the 2022 elections could be repeated, when several polling station presidents were missing, coinciding with a football match.
In the Neapolitan area, 91 seats out of 92 municipalities are ok, Naples is missing
At the moment 91 out of 92 municipalities in the province of Naples have completed the procedures relating to the establishment of polling stations. Only for the municipality of Naples are some seats still missing. The prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari, stated this when speaking to journalists, “but in these minutes, in these hours, we hope that it will be resolved”. “The election machine is going well, we have some small difficulties in the municipality of Naples, but the mayor is personally following” the situation. The difficulties concern the lack of scrutineers, the replacement of those present at the polling station “is an activity that we had already foreseen – adds the prefect – the municipality of Naples had also foreseen an additional list of polling station presidents, from which is being drawn upon.”
Two hundred seat presidents out of 346 resign their office in Bari
Again as Ansa writes, most of the seat presidents appointed by the Court of Appeal for the upcoming electoral round in Bari, which concerns both the municipal and the European elections, have resigned from their positions. In the city, 345 sections have been set up plus a special one in via Fornari in Modugno (in which only non-residents who have registered vote for the European elections) and 200 have preferred to give up. The municipal offices have completed the replacements. The high percentage of waivers is structural with higher peaks for the Administrative, Political and Regional ones. Among the causes there is also the salary, considered low, which for polling station presidents is equal to 246.50 euros while for secretaries and scrutineers it amounts to 188 euros. If, however, there are no scrutineers, the president of the polling station makes the appointment, which can also be limited to three, a lower number than the standard number of four.
Substitute scrutineers found, 1,313 polling stations opened in Milan
The electoral machine also started in Milan at 3 pm sharp in the 1,247 ordinary polling stations in 162 schools and in the 66 special polling stations (for example in hospitals and nursing homes) in addition to the 8 voting sections located at the Catholic University and the Polytechnic of almost 5 thousand non-resident male and female students. Some municipal structures such as the electoral office in via Messina and the registry office in via Larga remain open today, with free access but only for purposes related to electoral needs. The Municipality has announced that in the last five weeks a total of 34,243 voter cards have been issued and that this morning alone 3,896 were requested. Also this morning, the last critical issues that had arisen in recent days in the search for replacements for presidents and scrutineers who had become unavailable were resolved.
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