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Regional election shifts Andalucía to the right

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None of the opinion polls had predicted the historic regional election result in Andalucía last Sunday night. A sharp decline in support for the ruling PSOE Socialist party and a drop-off in votes for the left in general gave parties to the right a ... the PSOE in the region after four decades. Party backs Díaz for now Susana Díaz's future was still unclear this week, although after hesitation, her national party backed her. Díaz had called the early election after Ciudadanos withdrew its ... Díaz is comforted by her deputy Manuel Jiménez Barrios on election night.EFE The total of MPs for the PP (26), C's (21) and Vox (12) is 59 and a sufficient majority to keep out the PSOE. But a pact needs to be negotiated ahead of a parliamentary

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On the final straight of the campaign trail

Rachel Haynes

It's been smiles all round on these last few days of the campaign trail as the candidates for seats on the Andalusian parliament aim to round up last-minute support from voters. The regional election takes place on Sunday when 6,541,722 citizens of ... Andalucía are called to cast their vote. ELECTIONS IN FIGURES 6.5m citizens of Andalucía have the right to vote in Sunday's regional election. 109 is the number of seats in the Andalusian parliament. 55 is the number of seats needed for an overall

Opinion

The right change?

Rachel Haynes

A read of the literature sent by post to every voter by the main political parties before the Andalusian election last weekend made you want to vote for them all. All four were going to do away with corruption, cut down hospital waiting lists, ... able to offer was change. When asked before the election in a poll the majority of Andalusians questioned said they thought a change would be good, as having the same party in power for more than 40 years was really too much. The interviewees then went

Far-right result sparks anti-fascist protests across Andalucía

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Following the surprise breakthrough for far-right group Vox in Sunday's Andalusian election, around 2,000 people joined an antifascist protest in Malaga city centre on Monday. Similar demonstrations took place in Granada and Seville as protesters,

National

Spain marks 40th anniversary of referendum that approved the post-Franco democratic constitution

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40 years since the first post-Franco parliamentary election. Speaking about his father this week, Felipe VI said the retired monarch was "witness and direct participant" in the "deep and decisive transformation" since 1978 in Spain. Yesterday

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Dejected Díaz vows to fight on to try to keep power and stop the rise of the far-right

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Susana Díaz, regional PSOE leader and current acting president of the Junta de Andalucía, was clearly shocked by the election result on Sunday night. Speaking to supporters at her party's campaign base in Seville, she claimed little personal ... of his performance since the PSOE took control in Madrid earlier this year. Earlier this week, national party bosses were lukewarm in giving support for Díaz, suggesting that factors unique to Andalucía had played a part in the election. However,

National

PP and Cs vie for possible control of the Junta, but who would be in charge is unclear

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The election night delight of the Partido Popular (PP) at the decline of the PSOE's share of vote, and the possibility of grabbing power in a region they have longed to govern, masked the decline in their own vote in favour of Ciudadanos (C's) and

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Electoral breakthrough for far-right Vox

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...domestic cases. Without any opinion poll predicting it, he managed to secure 11 per cent of the vote in last weekend's election. With the 12 seats of Serrano holding the key, the right-wing parties have a majority to remove the PSOE from power for the

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Opinion poll puts Socialists in lead as campaign for Andalusian elections kicks off

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Campaigning for the election of Andalucía's regional parliament on Sunday 2 December kicked off at midnight last night (Thursday) as an opinion poll showed the PSOE Socialist party in the lead. Today, Friday 16 November, is the first full day of ... official electioneering and during the campaign national political leaders are expected to descend on Malaga province to support their regional candidates. Malaga and the Costa de Sol are seen as a key battleground in the election of the Seville-based ... 37.41% of the vote. This would translate into 45-47 seats in the 155-seat regional parliament. The figure is broadly the same as the last election in 2015 and still not enough for an absolute majority. Ciudadanos' vote may grow Centrist Ciudadanos,

Opinion

A man with a plan?

Mark Nayler

...potentially unprecedented influx of migrants? With his eye on the 2020 general election, Sánchez is trying to increase support for Spain's Socialist party. So far, he's succeeding: the PSOE has leapt from fourth to first place in opinion polls in just three