Abstention was expected to be one of the great fears in these elections, but the day is disproving that fear with data in hand. The people of Andalusia are going to vote and are doing so to a greater extent than in 2022. This is confirmed by the third (and final) turnout update, provided by the Minister of the Presidency, Antonio Sanz, from the Data Center. By 6:00 p.m., 51.65% of the census had already voted, more than seven points above the 44.51% recorded at the same time four years ago.

Despite everything, Bárbara Sanz remains calm and in good spirits. And it is not easy. The family of this 35-year-old image consultant, married and with three children, including a little girl barely two years old, is going through an ordeal in their own home, in the center of Sabadell. The house of their dreams, a magnificent renovated home that has preserved many of the elements of the original from two centuries ago, was hiding a secret that is disrupting them. A few months ago, they discovered that behind the partition wall of one of the walls in the master bedroom, a colony of bats had taken hold and is growing day by day, with the inconveniences that this entails. Bats are protected animals, and that is why the Generalitat of Catalonia offers them as the only solution to “move house” until the breeding season of the animals ends and they can be safely removed.