As widely anticipated, the Partido Popular has won the Spanish general election but by a larger margin than expected, gaining 186 seats in Congress. The PSOE have 110 seats in Congress, their lowest ever. The Partido Popular has also won all regions in Spain except Cataluña and the Basque region.
Today is the day
Almost 6.5 million people in Andalucia are eligible to vote in the general election today to elect 60 deputies to Congress, one less than four years ago due to a fall in population in Cádiz, and 32 Senate representatives.
Voters in Andalucia
A total of 6,390,079 people are registered on the census in Andalucía for voting in the November 20th elections, 2.5% more than in 2008 and there are 339,265 people eligible to vote for the first time.
Promises, promises…
Interesting straw poll in one of the newspapers showing that 94% say that the way they vote will not be affected by the actual electoral campaigns. People are obviously becoming wise to the fact that even less (if that is actually possible) of what a politician says during a ‘campaign’ can be believed than would normally be the case. After …
Opinion polls put Mariano Rajoy way ahead
The latest opinion polls commissioned by El Pais and El Mundo show that, if the election were held today, the PP of Mariano Rajoy would secure between 190 and 196 seats and the PSOE of Alfredo Peréz Rubalcaba would get between 115 and 120 seats.
Televised political debate
The political campaign coordinators of the PSOE and PP have agreed to the holding of a single ‘face to face’ televised political debate between the two prospective leaders, Mariano Rajoy (PP) and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (PSOE), and this will take place on November 7th, thirteen days before the election.