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Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría and Pablo Casado will contest the second round of elections for the PP leadership at the July 20-21 Congress. The two candidates, the most voted on Thursday, had respectively 21,500 and 19,900 votes. The difference between the two was only 3%. From the outside was Maria Dolores of Cospedal, with 15,000 votes. The former Defense Minister has been named as one of the big favorites, along with Santamaria. However, once the votes were raised at 8:30 pm (7:30 pm in Lisbon), Spanish newspapers began to show Casado as a favorite.
Polling stations opened at 9.30 am local time (8.30 am in Lisbon) and closed at 8.30 pm local time (7.30 pm). Lisbon). In all, there are six candidates who contest this vote, for which 66,706 activists are expected – since out of the 860,000 who form the PP, only 7.6% have registered to participate in these elections.
This Thursday, two ballots were voted:
- It was used to select the favorite candidate for the presidency of the PP
- The other was used to elect the delegates who will represent the activists at the Congress of the party, July 20 and 21.
If a candidate has more than 50% of the vote, a 15% victory in more than 50% of constituencies, the congress will have a single candidate and will be more than a mere formality.
But if no one reaches these grades, the two best candidates vie for a second round at the July 20 and 21 Congress. Given that there are six candidates, the most likely is that the elections will be decided only after the second vote.
The internal elections of the PP, which are celebrated this Thursday to decide who is the successor of Mariano Rajoy, are marked by complaints from some of the leading candidates who complain about the situation. irregularities in different polling stations.
The complainant's applications are those of María Dolores de Cospedal, General Secretary of the PP and former Minister of Defense, and Pablo Casado, Deputy Secretary of the PP and Congressman. In addition to Soraya Sáenz Santamaría, former vice president of the government, are the two favorites to reach the summit of the PP. Now, according to El País, everyone has denunciations to present on how the vote took place throughout the day.
According to this newspaper, the team of Pablo Casado complains that activists who did not register to vote in these elections could, despite everything, do so without problems in Orihuela, Comunidad Valanciana. On the other hand, the team of Maria Dolores de Cospedal has already announced that she wanted to challenge the results of some Catalan polling stations, because she believes that the conditions had been created so that the votes have been diverted to Pablo Casado. And in Malaga, Andalucia, there were also complaints in the same direction, but this time with the alleged vote to favor Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría.
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