Candidates cast their vote amid great expectation
Parties ask citizens to vote hoping for “historic” voter turnout
The candidates of the main Catalan parties have already voted. Amid great expectation, they arrived at polling stations and cast their vote in the morning. After voting, the leaders of the Catalan parties vying for victory in the election welcomed the forecast of highest electoral turnout ever, and asked citizens to vote “massively”.
“Voting for democracy”
The candidate number two for pro-independence left-wing party ERC stressed that she hopes that “democracy wins, as it won on October 1”. “We hope that the voter turnout is high and that we’re able to exercise our democratic rights, keeping in mind that some people weren’t able to exercise them neither today nor during the campaign,” she said.
The top candidate for pro-independence far-left party CUP encouraged people “to vote and vote for the Republic”. According to him, voting for the Republic “means to vote for democracy”. “We are convinced that democracy will win today and, therefore, the Republic will win,” he said.
Currently in Brussels after being deposed after the enforcement of Article 155, Carles Puigdemont wasn’t allowed to vote in the election. However, he noted that he “hopes that the results of the election will allow” Catalonia “to get back to normality and to overcome the alteration of democracy and the cuts of freedoms imposed by Article 155.”