This is the last day to request a vote by mail in Spain for the 2024 European elections

There is only one week left until the European elections, which take place from June 6 to 9, and the electoral campaign is already underway. 27 countries vote with a different national electoral system and results that will be global and will be known on Monday, June 10.

More than 370 million people are called to vote in elections that call for the mobilization of the vote “to protect democracy.” “Use your vote” is the motto chosen by the European Parliament to advocate for an intergenerational union at the polls.

The majority of Member States vote Sunday, June 9, as is the case of Spain. The new electoral appointment will give way to the tenth legislature in the European Union for a period of another five years, from 2024 to 2029. But until what day can you request a vote by mail for 9-J?

The last day to request the vote by mail for 9-J

Voters can vote in person at the polling station that corresponds to them based on their electoral roll, which is based on registration, or by mail. Spanish citizens who vote from abroad will have to be registered in the Consular Registration Registration of the consulates or consular sections of the Spanish embassies in the country in which they reside.

Voting by mail for the elections to the European Parliament can be requested at any Post Office with your ID, passport or driving license. Likewise, you can order through the Correos website until Thursday, May 30.

[Estos son los candidatos de España que aspiran a ganar escaños en las elecciones europeas 2024]

Once the request is made, voters will receive the necessary documentation to vote at the address they have indicated. It is an envelope with a ballot from each of the political formations that are presented in the elections, a voting envelope together with the census registration certificate and another envelope with the address of the polling station where it is necessary to vote.

The process to vote is also very simple: the citizen has to insert the ballot into the envelope and close it. This must be placed together with the certificate in the envelope addressed to the polling station and sent by certified mail free of charge before the third day prior to the elections in the European Parliament. Until June 5th.

How many MEPs are elected in the elections?

In the next legislature the European Parliament will go from having 720 MEPs. Before Brexit, the European Parliament had a total of 750 seats, which is the maximum number allowed in the European Union Treaties, and after the departure of the United Kingdom, it was set at 705.

Thus, MEPs are distributed in the 27 countries that are part of the Union and some of them will have more seats, as is the case of Spain.

It must be taken into account that The minimum number of MEPs per country is six and the maximum is 96. In this way, the seats are distributed among the Twenty-seven for the next legislature, from highest to lowest number:

Germany (96 MEPs), France (81), Italy (76), Spain (61)Poland (53), Romania (33), Netherlands (31), Belgium (22), Greece (21), Czech Republic (21), Sweden (21), Portugal (21), Hungary (21), Austria ( 20), Bulgaria (17), Denmark (15), Finland (15), Slovakia (15), Ireland (14), Croatia (12), Lithuania (11), Slovenia (9), Latvia (9), Estonia ( 7), Cyprus (6), Luxembourg (6) and Malta (6).