Spain holds municipal and regional elections tomorrow with strong national projection

Spain celebrate tomorrow municipal elections and regional after a campaign marked by allegations of vote buying and the polarization between right and left ahead of the general elections at the end of the year.

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In these elections they are called to the polls 35.6 million voters to elect their representatives in twelve autonomous communities and 8,131 municipalities in Spain.

will also be renewed assemblies of the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melillain the north of Africaand the island councils, exclusive administrative entities of the Canary Islands.

In Sunday’s elections, 1.7 million young people between the ages of 18 and 23 will vote for the first time, 5% of the total census, and 414,000 resident foreigners in Spain.

To maintain the normal development of the day, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior will deploy a device of almost 100,000 agents of the State Security Forces and Bodies.

The almost 23,000 polling stations The doors will open at 9:00 a.m. local time (7:00 a.m. GMT) and close at 8:00 p.m. local time (6:00 p.m. GMT).

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A TEST OF THE GENERAL

The vote is presented as a kind of rehearsal of the general electionswhich, if they are not advanced, must be held at the end of the year.

The result will show if, facing the generals, the left, which governs in coalition in Spainmaintains a support among voters to continue in power or if the conservatives, possibly agreeing with the extreme right, can be the alternative.

In general, the campaign was highly marked by issues of national interest, such as housing, with the announcement by the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezof thousands of social housing and aid so that young people with little income can access it, or million-dollar subsidies for the agricultural sector, especially affected by the lack of rain.

Also due to the strong criticism of inclusion by the Basque independence party EH Bildu of candidates who were convicted of terrorism, after which the formation announced that those who committed terrorist acts with fatalities would retire.

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THE CONTROVERSY OF VOTE BUYING

But the controversy in the final stretch came with a series of complaints of vote buying in different areas of the country -the most striking in the autonomous city of Melillain the north of Africa-, something unusual in more than four decades since the recovery of democracy in Spainwhere until now these cases were very specific.

Some of these complaints splashed candidates from different parties, who are among those arrested for alleged fraudmainly in voting by mail.

Faced with this unusual situation, the Secretary of State for Communication of the Spanish Government, Frances Vallestoday guaranteed the transparency, security and neutrality of these elections and affirmed that the electoral process in Spain is “one of the safest and guarantors of the world”.

“We believe that citizens will participate as they always have in an electoral process. The incidents detected have shown that the system works perfectly, detects and repairs”, he pointed out at a press conference in which the organizational details of tomorrow’s session were announced.

In Spain The day before the voting is the day of reflectionduring which electoral acts are prohibited.

Therefore, the municipal and regional candidates and some party leaders took the opportunity to regain strength after the campaign with hobbies such as being with the family, going for a walk, shopping or playing sports.

Source: Elcomercio

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