Madrid/Prensa Latina
The order and self-discipline within the electoral faculties in Spain contrasted right now with some extremist posters in opposition to the Authorities and the conflict of declarations.
Though the marketing campaign to elect the brand new European Parliament (EP) concluded at midnight on Friday, the barrage of assaults from the conservatives of the Widespread Get together (PP) and the far-right Vox didn’t stop within the final hours.
Nor did the left, led by the socialists (PSOE) of the pinnacle of the Authorities, Pedro Sánchez, the Sumar group of the second vp, Yolanda Díaz, and the Podemos get together, cease responding to criticism and known as on the inhabitants to “vote for a way forward for progress.”
The opposite worrying actuality is a sure indifference on the a part of residents concerning the appointment with the polls this Sunday.
It’s the ninth time that Spain participates within the elections that can serve to elect a brand new European Parliament (EP). Since its entry into the European Union was made official on January 1, 1986, the socialists of the PSOE and the conservatives of the Widespread Get together (PP) have been the largest winners.
In the present day’s name is for 369 million Europeans to go to the polls. The following EP legislature will begin subsequent July and can stay till the identical month in 2029, with 720 MEPs from all of the nations of the European Union, together with 61 seats for Spain.
In Spain, the decision is to greater than 38 million Spaniards and European residents, who will achieve this in additional than 22 thousand places within the nationwide territory.
The polarization of the political setting reached such a degree that this Saturday claims started to flow into on social networks that there can be an “data blackout” on the outcomes of the elections because of a “authorities determination to govern the votes.”
Nonetheless, the fact is completely different. European laws set up that Member States can not disseminate election outcomes till all polling stations shut, then at 11:00 p.m. native time this Sunday in Italy.
The PSOE was the newest winner of the European elections in 2019, with 20 seats and 32.84 % of the votes with the candidacy of Josep Borrell.
The PP did it earlier than in 2014 with the platform of Miguel Arias Cañete. The ‘widespread’ achieved success with 16 seats and 26.09 % of the votes and two seats forward of the PSOE.
In response to the polls, the PP led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo would obtain an essential leap within the elections and will endanger the supremacy of the PSOE.
One of many underlying points forward of the elections focuses on the file opened in opposition to Begoña Gómez, investigated for an alleged corruption and affect peddling scheme, primarily based on press complaints from the far-right pseudo-union Manos Libres.
Within the background, as well as, is the not too long ago permitted Amnesty Legislation, not but applied, which might free greater than 100 prisoners convicted of making an attempt to separate Catalonia from Spain in 2017, and the return of the fugitive from justice Carles Puigdemont, chief of the Junts get together.
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