Spain’s general election campaign kicks off

Rallies across Spain have been held to mark the official opening of the country’s general election campaign.

Voters will go to the polls in a little over two weeks time to elect a new government on April 28.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE) starts the campaign as favourite. But with anti-establishment parties preparing to disrupt the political mainstream, the outcome is far from certain.

But with an absolute majority for any of the traditional parties looking unlikely, the performance of outsiders such as the left wing Podemos will be critical to the outcome.

The big unknown quantity is far right newcomer Vox, who won seats in regional elections in Andalucia last December, but remain untested on the national political scene.

Via Euronews