According to a latest Euronews poll, the Spanish People’s Party is the favorite in the European elections in June and could strengthen its group in Parliament by twelve seats.
In Spain, the triumph of the Socialists in the Catalan elections in mid-May set the tone for the European campaign: negotiations for the formation of the regional government loom over the debate of the electoral campaign.
According to a survey carried out for Euronews, the center-right is the favorite in the election ahead of the socialists.
The projection of voting intentions gives the People’s Party in the lead for the June election. The Conservative Party nevertheless recorded a decline of 0.3 points compared to March of this year.
Conversely, the socialists did not suffer from the accusations of corruption against the wife of the Prime Minister and remain stable in the same period, March and May.
Catalan MP Dolors Montserrat is the leader of the Popular Party for the June election. In 2017, the leader of the PP was Minister of Health in the government of Mariano Rajoy at the time of the referendum in Catalonia.
The nationalist party Vox also chose a Catalan to lead its list: Jorge Buxadé was a former member of the Phalange Española de las JONS, a Francoist-inspired formation.
The Popular Party and Vox jointly attack socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Conservatives and nationalists formulate identical criticisms.
They criticize Pedro Sánchez for his concessions to Catalan nationalists and accuse him of not sufficiently protecting Spanish farmers.
The Spanish People’s Party is likely to bring 25 elected officials to the European People’s Partywhich is twelve more than today.
The socialist group could lose a seat and Vox hopes to have someone elected in the ranks of the Conservatives and Reformists in the European Parliament.
The Minister of Ecological Transition Teresa Ribera leads the Espingole socialist list for these European elections.
Environmental and societal issues, particularly around gender, are fueling growing divisions between Spanish political parties.
