Spain is experiencing a decisive day this Sunday due to the general elections in which the next Parliament will be defined.
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Once the seats are distributed, the party that obtains the majority will be able to form a government. The Popular Party (PP) and the Socialist Party (PSOE) are the two most options, according to the polls.
If they do not achieve it on their own, and this is what the polls indicate, each of the two parties will be forced to try to reach a government majority after agreeing with the other two parties. that follow them in the polls: the right-wing formation Vox, in the case of the PP, and the left-wing coalition Sumar, in the case of the PSOE.
The four main candidates – the current head of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijóo (PP); the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez (PSOE); the second vice president of the Executive, Yolanda Díaz (Sumar), and the right-wing leader, Santiago Abascal (Vox).
Election day details
In total, more than 37 million Spaniards are called to vote in these general elections. Of these, 2.3 million reside abroad.
Participation data
Participation in the early hours of the Spanish general elections It rose two and a half points compared to those of 2019 and exceeded 40%, according to data offered this Sunday by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior.
In the first five hours after the opening of the polling stations, participation was 40.23%, compared to 37.92% in the previous ones of November 2019, on a day that passes normally.
Statements by Feijóo
The conservative candidate of the Popular Party (PP) for the Spanish general elections, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assured after voting this Sunday that today “Spain can start a new era”.
“Everything that Spain decides clearly and clearly is good for Spain,” Feijóo said in statements to the media, it will be at the exit of the electoral college in Madrid where he went to exercise his right to vote.
First statements by Pedro Sánchez
The president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, asked the citizens for a “historic” participation in the general elections this Sunday so that the polls allow there to be “a strong government”.
Sánchez made this appeal to the electorate after casting his vote at a Madrid polling station accompanied by his wife, Begoña Gómez.
the polls open
The polling stations opened at 9 am (local time) in Spain for early legislative elections in which the right-wing opposition appears as the favorite in the polls against the outgoing Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, in power since 2018.
How many Spaniards are called to vote?
Of the voters residing in Spain, 1,639,179 will participate for the first time in a general election, having turned 18 since the previous vote, held on November 10, 2019.
The Spanish general elections, in which the representatives of the Congress and the Senate are directly elected, are held every four years, unless the head of the Executive Orders their early dissolution, as occurred on this occasion.
Everything prepared in the polling stations
For those who are going to vote this Sunday, 210,000 ballot boxes and 59,000 booths were installed and 85 million envelopes have been distributed in the polling stations.
Throughout the country, there are 549 proclaimed candidacies for Congress and 544 for the Senate.
The Spanish Secretary of State for Communication, Francesc Vallès, and the Undersecretary of the Interior, Isabel Goicoechea, explained this Saturday that everything is ready for the elections to take place “with total normality” and praised the electoral system, “robust, secure and well designed”.
At a press conference, both government representatives also thanked the work carried out by the more than 90,000 members of the State security forces and bodies that will make up the security device.
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