Madrid, Jul 16 (EFE).- Spain faces the last week before the elections next Sunday with the focus of the parties on undecided voters, who could reach 20% of the total, and on the 2,622,808 requests for Voting by mail for Spaniards, who will be caught in these elections in an atypical holiday period.
On July 23, Spain decides whether to continue to be governed by the progressive Socialist Party of the current president, Pedro Sánchez -with the almost certain necessary support from the left-wing coalition Sumar, of Yolanda Díaz- or if, on the contrary, it gives its confidence to the conservative Popular Party of Alberto Núñez Feijóo -who also probably had to rely on another formation, the far-right Vox of Santiago Abascal-.
Almost 37.5 million Spaniards are called to the polls to choose between, as the polls show, a block of leftist formations or one of the right.
The numerous consultations published in recent days reveal the internal division of the country, between the proposals of the PSOE and Sumar, which defend what was carried out during the coalition of the last legislature, and those of the PP and Vox, of a conservative nature and which have been criticized by feminist or LGBTiQ+ groups.
THE VALUABLE AND NECESSARY INDECIDATE VOTE
The president and socialist candidate, Pedro Sánchez, today vindicated his management and the improvement of coexistence in Catalonia during a rally in Barcelona, in which he asked for the vote of women, young people and the undecided in favor of “a Spain that advances united in its diversity”.
“I only ask for one last effort and those who are undecided, who are clear that if they are going to vote they vote for the PSOE, look: one day to vote and four years of progress,” Sánchez said in front of around 3,000 attendees, according to sources from his party. .
For his part, the PP candidate called today in Logroño (north) to fight an objective: the twenty seats at stake in 18 provinces that are decisive so that the seats do not go to the PSOE due to the dispersion of the vote.
Feijóo called to vote, warning that “abstention is a vote for (Pedro) Sánchez to stay.”
The Vox leader, to whom the polls suggest a loss of seats on Sunday, invoked the “authentic useful vote” and insisted that only his ballot will allow Pedro Sánchez to be thrown out of Moncloa and not that of the PP.
Yolanda Díaz, Sumar’s candidate and current second vice president of the Government, criticized the PP’s economic policy on her own, because she understands that she wants to recover “the model of precariousness”, with “throwaway workers”.
“Vote for Sumar on July 23 so that there is no Spaniard in trouble in our country,” he stressed today at a rally.
VOTE BY MAIL, IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Voting by mail became one of the great protagonists of the elections this week, with millions of Spaniards on vacation and the offices of the state company reinforced with extra workers and working longer shifts and on non-working days, like today.
Several leaders called attention to this fact and the possibility that there are voters who do not receive their vote on time. Among them, the leader of the popular, who questioned the efficiency of the system, something that gave rise to a crossroads of accusations that continue to this day.
To ensure the vote, the postal service kept all offices in the city of Madrid and Barcelona open this Sunday, as well as those in the most touristic destinations to facilitate the delivery of vote-by-mail documentation and its issuance, the deadline for which ends on 20 of July.
Thus, 106 offices in Madrid and Barcelona will open this Sunday and they did so yesterday. These extraordinary openings will be joined by offices throughout Spain, particularly in coastal tourist areas where a greater influx is expected.
On the other hand, the entity reiterated that there are extraordinary distributions, in which nearly 900 Post Office professionals participate this Sunday delivering the electoral documentation and the distribution network was reinforced with 315 additional delivery points to be able to collect the ballots for the 23J that will be sent until this same July 16. EFE
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