Spain holds general election with far right as central player
- July 23, 2023
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Spain goes to the polls this Sunday in a potentially closed general election marked by ideological divisions. ghost of the extreme right and annoyance at being forced to
Spain goes to the polls this Sunday in a potentially closed general election marked by ideological divisions. ghost of the extreme right and annoyance at being forced to vote during the summer holidays.
Polling stations opened this Sunday at 9:00 am local time (01:00 am in central Mexico) to celebrate the general election, in which Prime Minister will be elected and representatives of Congress and the Senate.
Polling stations will close at 20:00 (12:00 in central Mexico). when exit polls will be published. According to experts, the final result will be decided less than a million votes and less than 10 seats in parliament with 350 deputies.
Prime Minister, socialist Pedro Sanchez, He postponed elections due later this year after the left failed in local elections in May.
The Spaniards could choose succession Sanchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), and their partners from the left Sumar coalition headed by the vice-president Yolanda Diaz.
However, polls show that the right-wing candidate is the favorite. People’s Party (PP), Alberto Nunez Feijooalbeit without enough seats in parliament to form a government.
Photo: Reuters
Spain is a parliamentary monarchy, so absolute majority in Congress required (176 votes) be able to manage.
In this sense, PP may team up with far-right party VOXled by Santiago Abascal to add seats. This was done in several autonomous communities such as Extremadura, Valencia and the Balearic Islands after local elections in May.
Polls they do not give the parties of the left or right enough seats be able to form a government, so another possible scenario is a repeat general election. This is not the first time this has happened.
For many Spaniards, this is a defining moment in the political life of the country. If PP and VOX form an alliance with enough seats to govern, This will be the first time that the far right enters the government. ever since the Iberian country transitioned to democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.
PP and VOX have promised to reverse or rather correct various reforms undertaken by the Sánchez government, among them Democratic Memory Law; euthanasia law; trans law; labor reform, among other things. Feihoo also promised that the Ministry of Equality would disappear.
Vox leader Santiago Abascal. Photo: Reuters file
Vox speech was characterized militancy against illegal immigration, feminism, or the sexual diversity communityamong other things.
Total 37 million 469 thousand 142 Spaniards they are called to go to this election, of which 2.3 million live abroad.
The fact that these elections coincide with the Spaniards’ summer vacation has led to more than 2.47 million citizens vote by mail, According to data provided by the State Postal Agency.
This number is 94.2% of applications accepted for this form of suffragethe highest score achieved in a Spanish general election since the approval of the statistical reports (2008).
More 90,000 employees of the forces and organs of state security They integrate a safety device to ensure that the process runs smoothly and without incident.
(According to information from EFE, Reuters And Aristegui News)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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