Female voters could decide Spanish general election result
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Euronews reports that according to a poll by the Center for Sociology Studies, 60% of undecided voters for the upcoming Spanish election are women.
This means around 4 million women are unsure how they will vote and that women could help swing the election one way or another.
Marks of yellow paint scattered on the windows and walls at the headquarters of the PSC socialist party in Barcelona, Spain, a day after an effigy of former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont was burnt in Seville during the traditional ‘Judas Burn’ in Coripe, Seville. Despite vandals’ accuse the Catalan socialist party of remaining silent, Catalan Socialist candidate to the Lower House Meritxell Batet already condemned the burn of Puigdemont’s effigy the previous day.
The poll also revealed that women are less likely to vote for new parties such as Vox, Podemos and Ciudadanos.
Feminism has become the buzzword of electoral campaigns in Spain’s general election taking place on April 28th.
Following strikes and mass protests seen across the country during International Women’s Day in the beginning of March, left-wing and liberal parties are campaigning on women’s issues.
Spain’s Socialists increased their lead in a poll published on Monday in newspaper ABC that gave them 31.5 percent of votes, but fell short of a majority.
It is the third poll in two days that shows the Socialists expanding their advantage, and forecasting that a coalition of three right-wing parties – People’s Party (PP), Ciudadanos and far-right Vox – would not get enough seats to form a parliamentary majority.
The second most voted party would be PP, with 20.1 percent of support, 0.8 percent less than in the previous week poll. The main conservative party would have between 81 and 86 seats in parliament, losing up to 56 from the last election.
