By Prensa Latina
Madrid : Over 87,000 troops from different security bodies are part of the operations created in this country for the March 9 elections in Spain, official sources reported Saturday.
According to the Interior Ministry’s assistant secretary Justo Zambrana, the deployment is comprised of members from the National Guard and Federal Police, as well as agents from the local police and autonomous communities.
The official stated this mobilization was created before the Friday attack in the Basque Country, which cost the life of former socialist councilor Isaias Carrasco, in an action attributed by the government to the armed Basque organization ETA.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said today that the country cannot discard other ETA actions before elections end tomorrow night.
Spain is in a state of maximum alert since February 22, when the electoral campaign formally began.
This measure includes the protection of everything related to elections, particularly propaganda acts, members of political parties and dependencies linked to the voting process.