This weekend the legislative elections will be held that will seek to renew the members of the two chambers of the country’s Cortes Generales.
Spain will go to the polls this Sunday in the framework of the elections legislative where the members of the Congress, both in deputies like in senators, the two chambers of the General cuts that represent citizens as legislative power.
In the case of deputies, Spanish citizens they will vote with a closed listwhile in the Senate open lists are accepted and the same ballot can include candidates from different forces policies.
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In Argentinasome 25,000 Spaniards residing in Argentina voted for six days at the embassy headquarters and several Spanish consulates in the country. The polls were open 60 hours on consecutive days at the embassy, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, where tables with hundreds of ballots were located.
For voting abroad, voters received two envelopes: one with information to carry out the vote correctly and another with the ballots and the electoral options.
Elections in Spain: who are the main candidates
The elections in Spain will be led by four well-known characters from Spanish politics: Pedro Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Yolanda Díaz and Santiago Abascal.
- Pedro Sánchez, current president, he needs an urgent victory to show his mettle. after one surprise defeat of the left in the municipal elections and regional, the socialist decided to advance the elections with the aim of rebounding in the electoral results. He has held the presidency of the government since mid-2018 and his government stands out within parliament for the approval of laws such as the legalization of euthanasia, the rehabilitation of the memory of the victims of the Francisco Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and free gender change from the age of 16.
- Santiago Abascal, a 47-year-old former PP militant and current president of the VOX party, a force born as a split from the PP in 2013 and which in 2019 became the third political force in Congress. His program, in short, is based on the denial of gender violence and the fight against “climate fanaticism” and the LGBTIQ+ collective.
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Santiago Abascal, candidate for president of Vox.
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- Alberto Núñez Feijóo is the benchmark of the Popular Party (PP). He was governor of Galicia, is 61 years old and believes that the time has come to lead the direction of Spain. He is the favorite in the polls and his campaign is largely focused on disqualifying the current president.
- Yolanda Diaz is the labor minister and number three of President Pedro Sánchez. tops Adda platform with fifteen formations to the left of the Socialists among which is Podemos, the party founded in 2014 by Pablo Iglesias. His most seductive government proposals center on a universal inheritance of 20,000 euros ($22,435) for all 18-year-olds.
Source: Ambito
