Politics
Friday ends the campaign for the legislative of Sunday in Spain
Madrid and Valencia hosting the end
USPA NEWS -
The campaign for Sunday's legislative of Spain ends this Friday at midnight local time (06:00 pm EST), after two intense weeks that have failed to clarify the Spanish political landscape. A total of 36.5 million Spaniards are called to the polls Sunday to elect 350 deputies and 208 senators.
Of those 36.5 million voters, 34.6 million live in Spain and 1.8 million are living abroad. The number of voters has increased slightly compared to the legislative elections of 2011, when 35.7 million Spaniards were called to vote. For holding the elections they were distributed 210,000 ballot boxes and 58,000 booths to ensure privacy of the vote. 57,486 polling stations will be installed and the schools will open their doors at nine o'clock. For eleven hours they will receive the votes of those who go to exercise their right. The first provisional results are expected around ten o'clock Sunday night.
Candidates will make an extra effort Friday in their pursuit of undecided vote. The probes that handle political parties agree that any training warn achieve a sufficient majority to govern alone. "It is time pacts", repeated in all locations. But it may not be enough. In the conservative Popular Party (PP), which all polls give the winner, they are already talking about a pact of governance with various formations because the sum of their votes and the centrist party Citizens may not be enough to form a stable Government.
The Conservatives are willing to compromise with the Socialist Party (PSOE), but with another candidate other than the secretary general training, Pedro Sanchez, with whom relations have been broken after the insults uttered on Monday in the face to face debate with the Prime Minister and candidate of the PP, Mariano Rajoy. The Prime Minister and Conservative candidate Christmas dinner will take advantage of his party in Madrid, held this Friday, to close the season after his return from the European Council to be held in Brussels.
For his part, Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sanchez, closed his campaign in Fuenlabrada, one of the municipalities of Madrid's industrial belt. The capital of Spain is the venue chosen by the party centrist Citizens to close the campaign with their candidate for Prime Minister, Albert Rivera. And the candidate Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, has chosen Valencia for final rally. On Saturday, the candidates may rest from two intense weeks during which Spain have come trying to convince the undecided. Almost a quarter of the electorate has not decided how to vote and in their hands the future Government of Spain is.
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