No change in hours - and thus, the polls have now closed. Spain's Central Electoral Commission (JEC) has refused to extend the voting hours for today's 2024 Catalan election in spite of the serious incidents on the RENFE rail network this Sunday, as requested by Together for Catalonia (Junts) and Catalan Republican Left (ERC), according to a resolution made this Sunday afternoon. The JEC explains that the impact on the Rodalies train services, which has prevented trains from arriving at Barcelona, has been known since this morning and that users have had time to find an alternative means of getting to voting centres. Exceptionally, the JEC states that the provincial electoral boards in the four macro-constituencies of Barcelona, Tarragona, Girona and Lleida could extend the voting hours if specific problems were documented.
RENFE trains have not arrived in Barcelona since early morning due to a theft of copper cable, which the Mossos d'Esquadra police are now investigating, and which has affected many users, this time for hours in the middle of an election day.