With the majority of opinion polls approaching the right of an absolute majority in the elections scheduled for the 23rd in Spain, the leader of the Socialist Socialist Party and the head of government, Pedro Sanchez, on Monday criticized the companies responsible for opinion polls. , indicating that there is an attempt to lay off progressive voters.
In an interview with Rádio Nacional de Espanha, Sánchez alerted socialist voters to the consequences of abstention, stating that there are many people who have decided they will vote for a left-wing option but do not know if it is worth going. The election.
The PSOE leader said in Brussels, where the summit between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States is taking place, before taking part in the evening’s campaign rally in the city of Huesca.
The latest opinion polls allowed by Spanish law ahead of the early legislative elections on July 23 put the right on the brink of an outright majority, with the Popular Party (PP) ahead of, but needed, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), at the same time. Least of all, Vox supported, from the radical right, to be able to govern.
According to Spain’s main polling companies, which are banned from publishing opinion polls from Tuesday, the People’s Party will win between 131 and 151 of the 350 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, short of the 176 needed to reach an outright majority.
While several polls showed Vox would gain enough seats to secure the right to a common majority, the average of all polls released on Monday by GAD3, 40db, IMOP, Sigma 2 and Simple Logica institutes shows that PP and Vox would have 139 and Vox 36 seats, respectively, within one parliamentary seat of an absolute majority.
And the Socialist Workers’ Party will get between 98 and 115 deputies, according to opinion polls, which project an average of 108 seats. Somar’s coalition, the new alliance of far-left parties, which includes Podemos, the junior partner in the current government coalition, will get between 25 and 39 seats, contesting third place with Vox.
The exception – and PSOE’s hope – comes from the Center for Social Investigations (CIS), a public body linked to the Ministry of the Presidency, which puts PSOE ahead 1.4 points on PP in vote estimates, giving 32.2% to opposition socialists. 30.8% popular ones. Sumar appears as the third most voted political force, with 14.9%, ahead of Vox, with 11.8%.
In the CIS poll, the left adds up to 47.1%, up 4.5 points from the right, which would stand at 42.6%.
A hypothetical alliance between the People’s Party and the Vox could now lead the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Figo, to become head of government, but much will depend on who ranks third in several provinces, and on how many deputies elect certain parties. Regional groups that have supported Sanchez’s minority coalition for the past four years.
Feijóo was reticent about the possibility of a post-election coalition with Vox, despite the fact that the two parties met in several regions and in many municipalities after the local elections on 28 May, when the government coalition suffered a heavy defeat. The next day, Sanchez announced the expectation of the legislatures, tentatively scheduled for December, in an attempt to mobilize left-wing voters to prevent the far-right from gaining power.
This Monday, the People’s Party leader again did not open the game on a post-election agreement with Vox, guaranteeing that if he wins the election with a “clear enough” score, he will ask the Socialist Workers Party to let him govern.
“What the PSOE wants is to rule against whoever wins and not allow whoever wins to rule. And for that you need the whole parliamentary arc. If we have a clear and decisive enough result, I will knock on PSOE’s door to let me rule,” Feijóo stated in an interview with TVE.
News corrected on the 18th at 15:50: Pedro Sanchez has not canceled part of his schedule in Brussels to take part in a rally in Huesca.
