This Sunday, December 21 Extremadura celebrates its regional elections. Hundreds of thousands of Extremadurans are called to the polls on election day where the main candidates, Maria Guardiola (PP), Miguel Angel Gallardo (PSOE) and Oscar Fernández (Vox) have already voted. And it is curious that of the 388 municipalities that the autonomy has, two of them are characterized by having more voters abroad than in the locality itself.
These are Campillo de Deleitosa and Mesas de Ibor. Both are located in the province of Cáceres. Municipalities have more people registered outside the national territory than in their locality, due to migration in the 1960s, as the newspaper publishes. Today.
Part of these elections will be decided in countries like France, Holland either Swiss. In these three European states, a good number of Extremadura’s neighbors will vote thousands of kilometers from their homeland.
More than half, the 67%voters of Campillo de Deleitosa resides abroad. Of the 247 registered, 166 live outside the city. AND Ibor Paintings It is not far from its neighboring town. He 62% Meseños are also found outside the borders of Extremadura: 225 out of 362.
The reason for this curious fact is that hundreds of Extremadurans emigrated in the 1960sbut they are still part of the census of voters residing abroad. A good number of these voters, when they left, were 40 years old.
Something similar happens in other municipalities of Extremadura, as is the case of Valdelacasa de Tajo and Fresnedo de Iborboth from Cáceres, which have 46% and 45% of their voters outside their boundaries. Of the 860,375 Extremadurians called to the polls, 30,610 reside abroad. Concretely, in 102 countries, according to the publications Today.
“French” city
The mayor of Campillo de Deleitosa, Fermin Sanchezassured that during the summer “half the city speaks French”. It turns out that during the summer period, the French language and license plates flood the streets of your town.
“Those who emigrated in the 1960s return in the summer. Half of the population lives in France in cities like Paris Or Orleans. So in the summer, they come back with their children and half the town speaks French. I myself have cousins who live in France“, he indicated Sanchez.
The Extremadura councilor points out that its citizens went to work in factories and that in these regions “they had their children and lived their lives.” However, the owner of the stick considers that many of these itinerant Extremadurians will not vote by mailknowing that the percentage of voters abroad is barely 7%.
“Hope and dignity”
The president of the Regional Government of Extremadura and candidate for re-election of the PP, Maria Guardiolacalled on citizens to vote “freely” and with “enthusiasm” to be able to fill the ballot boxes with “a lot of hope and dignity”, and was “serene” about the “job well done” during her mandate, according to Efe.
Guardiola exercised his right to vote CEIP The Nursery of Cáceres a day that is doubly “historic” for her because she comes as a PP candidate to “continue to improve the lives of Extremadurans” and because she accompanies her son who is voting for the first time.
He indicated that this December 21 It’s a “very important” day for the region because the people of Extremadura are going to decide what future they want for the next four years.
“Today, the protagonists and Those who will have the voice are all those who get up early to work in the fields“These are all these people who work to improve public services, health, education, so that trade and tourism work,” he expressed.
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