More than 37 million citizens can go to the polls in the country
More than 37 million people can go to the polls this Sunday (23) for the general election in Spain.
These are the sixteenth legislative elections in the country’s history since the end of the military dictatorship in 1977, and the first held in midsummer in the northern hemisphere.
Voters will choose 350 deputies and 208 senators. The elections, scheduled for December, were brought forward by the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, shortly after the center-left’s defeat in the regional and municipal elections.
Sánchez hopes his maneuver will bear fruit, but the latest opinion polls show that the conservative People’s Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, is ahead of the socialists in power.
However, projections indicate that if the PP wins without obtaining an outright majority, it will have to form a coalition. Vox, a far-right party led by Santiago Abascal, could be the party to be invited to enter the government.
The turnout at 6pm in the Spanish elections was 53.12%, according to preliminary government figures. Voter turnout is about 3.73 points below the last general election, which took place in November 2019. .
Source: Terra
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