2023-07-16 16:51:59
The candidate of the Spanish Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, and the Prime Minister and Socialist candidate of Spain, Pedro Sánchez.
Ahead of snap elections on July 23, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is fighting to re-elect moderate voters discouraged by controversial measures advocated by his far-left coalition partners.
Sánchez’s socialists have governed in a minority coalition government with Podemos since January 2020after demonstrations of “outraged” against austerity in the streets of Spain.
The candidate of the Spanish Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, and the Prime Minister and Socialist candidate of Spain, Pedro Sánchez.
The right takes advantage of the ideologies of the left
It is Spain’s first coalition government since the restoration of democracy to the country in the 1970s, and has been marked by high-profile bickering between the two parties over contentious policies that have alienated more moderate Socialists.
“There has been a transfer of votes from left to right”said María Martín from the private pollster GAD3.
About 10 percent of former Socialist voters who said they voted for Sánchez during the last general election in November 2019 now say they will vote for the main opposition Popular Conservative Party (PP), he added.
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The problem contributing most to this shifting of votes is a loophole in a new sexual violence law passed last year that reduced the sentences of more than 1,000 jailed criminals, Martin said.
The far-right party Vox has put up a giant billboard in central Madrid showing a bearded man in a black hoodie covering his eyes, his hand covering a young woman’s mouth to stifle her scream.
“Sánchez has put hundreds of these monsters on the streets”reads a message in block letters above the image.
There is also a “confrontation in the center of the left between the more classic feminism represented by the Socialist Party and the one defended by Podemos,” said José Pablo Ferrándiz, of the Ipsos pollster.
Podemos has also attacked meat consumption for the good of the planetwhich has hurt support for the Socialists in rural areas, he added.
Sánchez tried to distance himself from the far-left party’s position, saying that for him “a steak undercooked is hard to beat.”
“According to various surveys, men, but also women, feel uncomfortable in the face of certain feminist discourses,” Sánchez said during an interview, adding that she had friends who felt that way.
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