Rajoy would win the elections if held today but lost 0.7% of votes

USPA NEWS - The conservative Popular Party of the acting President of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy, would win the elections if held today, according to the barometer of spring of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS its acronym in Spanish), but lose 0.7 % of the votes obtained in December 2015.

The Popular Party obtained 27.4% of votes compared to 28.7% achieved in the legislative elections on December 20, 2015. Nevertheless, it would be the winner of the elections, ahead of the Socialist Party would get 21.6% of the votes (-0.41% compared to December), and the populist extreme leftist coalition Podemos, who remain in third place, but lost almost three percentage points compared to December, to obtain 17.7% of the votes against 20.66% in the last election date. Meanwhile, the centrist Citizens would gain votes and garner 15.6% of the vote, compared with 13.9% who got in December, and the communist United Left coalition would rise to 5.4% from 3.67% obtained in December.

If fructify negotiations between Podemos and United Left coalition to attend together in the elections on June 26, the data from this survey empt the Socialist Party and would become the second Spanish political force and the first of the left wing. It is the objective of Podemos, which aims to become the hegemonic power of the Spanish left in place the Socialist Party. The secretary general of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, announced this week that, if he gets more votes than the Socialists, tend the hand to the secretary general of the Socialist Party and, in exchange for their support, will be offered the vice Presidency of a Government led by Podemos.

The barometer of spring of the Center for Sociological Research was developed in February when the Spanish political parties were engaged in negotiations to form a Government. The failure of these negotiations forced the King of Spain, Philip VI, to dissolve Parliament and call elections for next June 26. With the results of the CIS survey, Parliament to be formed next July 19 it would be so divided with the failed legislature that has just ended and further negotiations for the formation of Government would be necessary.