Spain buries bipartisanship in crucial vote with Socialist Sanchez as favorite – 27/04/2019

Madrid, special envoy

Spain vote this Sunday In unusual elections, bipartisanship is buried For the first time in 40 years, five parties are fighting for the government in an early election that generates, among voters and even among the same political forces, uncertainty and fear.

Polls indicate that the PSOE, led by the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, an authentic resurrected politician, would win with 29.5% votes. Then comes the Popular Party, whose candidate is Pablo Casado, which should reach 21.4%. Behind, Albert Rivera, leader of the citizens, 14.6%. Followed by Unidas Podemos, the party of Pablo Iglesias, center-left, with 13.4%. Vox, Santiago Abascal's right-wing force that opens in these elections and crowns all the concerns, would be around 9.9%. The system is parliamentary, so that the 350 deputies and 208 senators are elected.

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There are many concerns and lack of certainty about the scale of the proposals and the election raids that the parties have continued to conduct in private. The electoral law prohibits its publication five days before the elections. Doubts prevented almost all political forces from sleeping, with the exception of Ultra Vox, which closed its campaign Friday night, filling the Plaza de Colón in Madrid with some ten thousand supporters. Vox, who is participating for the first time in a general election, is pure fervor and has little to lose.

Large numbers describe this nearly 37 million Spaniards will be able to vote. This is the 13th election of the Spanish democracy -14 if you count the elections to the constituent Cortes of 1977-. Across the country, some 60,000 tables spread over 23,000 polling stations will open at 9:00 pm and close at 8:00 pm The almost final results should be known at 10:30 pm (5:30 pm in Argentina) about three and a half hours after the close of a vote in which more than 1,100,000 Spaniards of this age will do so for the first time . . Another novelty of these 2019 elections is the incorporation of nearly 100,000 registered voters after an October electoral reform granted the right to vote to people with disabilities.

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Sunday also, regional elections are held in the Valencian community. Some three and a half million electors may choose, in addition to the candidates for the presidency of the national government, the 90 deputies of the regional courts.

The Spaniards did not have to vote this Sunday. But the president of the government was forced to anticipate the elections after feeling handcuffed to govern. With only 84 Socialist deputies and before the rejection of their congressional budgets, Sanchez realized that his parliament was dying. The socialist had arrived at La Moncloa in June 2018, after being imposed by a motion of censure against the then president, the popular Mariano Rajoy. To obtain adhesions, he promised Ciudadanos to call elections as soon as possible, but he did not do so. The support of the Catalan and Basque separatists, in front of whom he ensured the opening of the dialogue that the administration of Rajoy had frozen, was also crucial.

But the policy of rapprochement with the Catalan separatists has angered the Spanish right who, after being devoted to disqualifying the ability to govern Sanchez, organized a protest in February this year at the Columbus monument in Madrid to demand his resignation .

So, ten months after baduming, Sanchez measures himself to what he calls "the three rights". It is his opportunity to realize, through the popular vote, the legitimacy that the motion of censure did not give him. And although polls soften it, its nonresponse regarding the granting of a pardon to Catalan separatist leaders – who are judged by the Supreme Court for their participation in the declaration process. independence of 2017 – creates uncertainty among Spaniards. .

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And among its political partners, those of Unidas Podemos, who have asked questions about the possibility of reaching agreement with the citizens, which Sánchez dismissed lukewarm. The Socialists are very cool the nightmare of Andalusia where, in December last, despite winning the elections to the vote, they lost the government when the PP allied with Citizens and Vox. Adrede, Sánchez "now scares" the Spanish electorate with the ghost of a national government in the hands of the three rights.

In turn, the candidates to the right of the socialist have their teeth. Rivera wants to direct the space and Casado aspires to absorb Citizens and Vox. In the verbal pbadages of the court that the Spaniards witnessed during the election campaign, the flight of some candidates and activists from the PP to the Rivera and Vox party was added. Anxious about the fracture of the right, on the edge of the last election campaign, Casado first opened the door to Vox's entry into his government, if the right got enough seats.