Meritxell Borràs announced that the Government was sending letters to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the Post Office to call for maximum cooperation in facilitating voting for Catalans living away from home

The Minister of Governance and Institutional Relations, Meritxell Borràs, announced that the Catalan Government has sent letters to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel García-Margallo, and to the General Manager of the Post Office to ask them to act "with maximum diligence" in order to make it easy for citizens living away from home to exercise their right to vote in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Catalonia. Borràs announced this in an interview on RAC1.

Meritxell Borràs explained that the Ministry of Presidency of the Catalan Government has sent a letter addressed personally to minister Margallo, to ask for his cooperation to ensure that Spanish embassies and consulates offer all possible facilities for Catalan electors living abroad to vote with normality in the elections on 27 September next. The Minister also said that she herself had sent a letter to the State Post and Telegraph Company asking them to deal with the distribution of voting papers and documentation needed for voting from outside Catalonia with "particular diligence and rapidity, so that everything goes perfectly and, therefore, nothing arrives late, because we all know that things do sometimes arrive late".

The minister recalled that, in relation from voting away from home, "things have not always worked as well as they should". It is in view of this experience that the Government has decided to seek solutions. In this sense, she said that, apart from the letters, there has been "information from minute zero, through the web page, the networks and Catalan community centres. The intention is to be active in making sure that the information reaches everyone, so that everyone who wishes to is able to use their right to vote and have their say at the appropriate moment, in this case 27 September".

Meritxell Borràs pointed out that 195,533 Catalan electors are outside Cataloniaand registered in the Census of absent electors (CERA), nearly 40,000 more than in the last parliamentary elections in Catalonia. This shows, she said, that there is a great interest in being able to vote and she insisted on the need to ensure that the maximum information arrives, because the Government is aware that the low turnout from away is not due to a lack of interest, but because, "in spite of their interest and wishing to vote, there were many obstacles and difficulties in doing it". It must be remembered that in the last elections only 6.7% of Catalans registered in CERA actually voted and many people resident abroad expressed complaints of difficulties and delays in the process of making their vote effective.

On the electoral deployment, Meritxell Borràs said that from the Government it is being and will be "very scrupulous with legality. Legality supports us in the announcement, in the call to the polls, and in everything. It this respect we are very calm, we are acting in a very correct way". In this sense, the Minister defended the institutional campaign on the Catalan parliamentary elections on 27 September: "The announcement is very effective, because it is clear, it does what it needs to do, which is to inform, it is instructive and, therefore, has had to be very scrupulous with the law, but also very informative".