2023-07-23 12:09:24
Spain was voting this Sunday in early legislative elections, with the right-wing favorite to beat Pedro Sánchez’s left-wing coalition, and the head of government following voting at a polling station in Madrid insisted on maintaining optimism, pointing out “I have good vibes” around the result.
In power for five years, the harsh defeat suffered in the regional elections in May forced the president of the Spanish government to call this early election in July, a framework that socialism did not imagine and in which all previous polls anticipate a possible victory for the right.
In that box, list Pedro Sánchezvoted in Madrid and asked the Spanish “That they go vote because this is a very important day, not only for us but for all of Europe”, and he slipped his hopes of turning around the predictions that the polls say, pointing out “I know we’re not favourites, but I have good vibes.”
“We are going to win the elections and we are going to win them resoundingly!”, he had exclaimed Sánchez on Friday at the closing ceremony of the campaign, in Getafe, near Madrid, while being hailed by his supporters as “president, president, president!”.
The polls show, however, that the PP, although it dominates the polls, would not achieve the absolute majority necessary to form an executive, so it might be forced to ally with the ultranationalists of Vox, the party led by Santiago Abascal, in a political scene where the extreme right has not been in government since the end of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in 1975.
In these general elections, which for the first time will take place in the very hot Spanish summer, some 2.5 million people will vote by mail, an unprecedented number, which for pollsters is a sign that turnout may be high, despite the heat and the fact that many voters are on vacation.
Some 37.5 million voters can deposit their ballots in the polls, open between 07:00 and 18:00 GMT, to renew Parliament for four years.
“What is going to happen here today is going to be very important, not only for us, logically, but also for the world and for Europe,” said the president of the outgoing government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, following voting in a school in Madrid. “I have good vibes,” Sánchez repeated before leaving, demanding that there be “a historic participation” so that the next “be a strong government so that Spain can move forward.”
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