Feijóo says that if there are "400,000" people "without voting" for having the documentation in the Post Office it is not "to celebrate"

He sees the Post Office management team as "very mediocre" because they did not do "good planning" and the company owes "more than a billion"

The leader of the PP and candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has assured this Tuesday that he has "no suspicion" about Correos but has added that the management team of this company is "very mediocre" and did not make a " good planning" before the elections. Having said this, he has warned that the fact that "400,000 remain without voting because they have the documentation in the offices" of the Post Office is not a fact "to celebrate."

This has been pronounced in an interview on Antena 3, which has been collected by Europa Press, after Correos has confirmed that there are 450,000 electoral documents that are still not collected at post offices and that remain available to voters to be able to exercise their right to vote by mail this July 23. The company has indicated that it has made 98.2% of the requested postal votes available to citizens.

Asked about the fact that there are only 450,000 notifications left in the Post Offices and if that allays his suspicions about the managers of this company, Feijóo replied that he has "no suspicions" about Correos but rather that the company's management team is "very mediocre"

In this sense, he has insisted that the Correos management team did not do "good planning to avoid all the trouble" that they have had with this postal company before the general elections of July 23, whose work has been "impeccable in all processes municipal and general electoral elections that they have had in Spain".

"That 400,000 remain without voting because they have the documentation in the offices, do not think that it is a piece of information to celebrate. I think," he emphasized, adding that they had no data in this regard until Monday.

Feijóo has indicated that the "problem" of Correos "is not this", which is "very serious" because the vote is a "constitutional right" and not a "postal object", but the fact that the company owes "more than a thousand millions of euros".

"The governance of Correos with Sánchez's former chief of staff is not qualified by him, but rather by the Correos staff repeatedly," said the PP candidate for the Presidency of the Government.

REQUEST PROTECTION FROM THE ELECTION BOARD IF THERE IS A PENDING VOTE BY MAIL

Feijóo has been emphasizing voting by mail for several days and this Monday, on TVE, he assured that he hopes that "no one is left without voting" given the possibility that the vote will not reach his home.

Last weekend, in an interview with Colpisa, the president of the PP said that he expected the 2.6 million ballots sent by mail to be in the polls on election day and said that if this were not the case , will request protection from the Electoral Board.

"The only thing I ask is that we guarantee that all the people who have requested the vote by mail can exercise it. And in the event that, in the last 48 hours, we observe that there are still not hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of votes without reaching the homes, we will ask the Electoral Board for this protection," he said, adding that he is "amplifying the concerns of the Post Office staff and the lack of transparency of official data."

THE PP HAS REQUESTED THAT VOTE BY MAIL BE EXTENDED

In addition, the PP has once again demanded that the Central Electoral Board (JEC) extend the deadline to deposit the vote by mail "until 2:00 p.m. on July 21." It also demands that the Post Office open "all its offices" during "morning and afternoon" hours, not only those in the capital Madrid, the capital Barcelona and other coastal tourist areas.

The JEC already ruled out on July 13 extending the deadline for voting by mail, as the PP had demanded, alleging the "problems that could arise from the modification of the deadlines established for the application and delivery of voting by mail."

In its letter, to which Europa Press had access, the PP also requests that a "copy of the contingency plan" launched by the Post Office to extend office hours and staff "with specification and detail" be transferred to the political formations competing in the elections. of all of them."