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Electoral and political disinformation has short- and long-term consequences. The president of Learn to Check and PhD in Communication from the UAB, Nereida Carrillo, explains how, in the short term, disinformation tries to promote abstention, encourage null votes and harm some candidates. In the long term, it tries to provoke polarization and mistrust. Media and information literacy (AMI) is one of the solutions that arouses the most consensus to resist disinformation and its consequences.