Polls show that the right-wing People's Party (PP), which fell into the main opposition because it could not find the support to gain the parliamentary majority despite coming first in the last elections in 2023, may come to power this time by taking the far-right Vox with it.
The overwhelming majority of surveys published in the country claim that PP and Vox will capture 190 MPs in the 350-seat parliament and gain an absolute majority that will bring them to power.
Finally, the 40dB company, which published a survey for El Pais and Cadenar SER radio, announced that PP will have 126 MPs and Vox will have 64 MPs in the current situation.
In the same survey, the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), the major partner of the government, had 118 seats, and the newly established "Broad Front" alliance of communist and far-left parties had 11 seats.
When compared to the last elections in the country in July 2023, both PSOE and PP are expected to lose between 1-3 seats.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who has been in power in Spain for the last 8 years, has told Spaniards "not to be deceived by the polls and that the left will manage to achieve victory again at the last moment" in all his rallies so far.
Sanchez, who constantly highlights Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's election victory in the second round in Brazil and President Donald Trump's election defeat in the USA, states that a similar situation may occur in Spain and that the right and far right will lose, contrary to expectations.
In his last rally in Seville, Sanchez "called everyone to the ballot box with a historic mobilization for the left to make an epic comeback" and claimed that only socialists could solve the housing crisis problem, which was rejected in the Parliament with the votes of the right and far right and caused an early general election.
Responding to the insults of Argentinian President Javier Milei and his closest friend in Spain, Santiago Abascal, leader of the far-right Vox party, at the same rally, Sanchez said, "Their insults are our badge of honor. If they call us leftists, we will be proud of it. With this left hand, we said no to Trump's increase in defense spending to 5 percent, we said yes to peace. We did it all with our left hand." he said.
The main opposition People's Party listed a total of 249 proposals in its election program under the main headings of "Reestablishing the state, revitalizing democracy, reuniting the nation and restoring ambition and self-respect to Spain."
Highlighting promises of "lower taxes, more housing and controlled migration for young people", PP announced that it would repeal some laws, such as the Democratic Memory Law, which the left government passed to erase the traces of the dictator Francisco Franco period and protect the victims, and the Amnesty Law for separatist Catalan leaders, and re-add the crimes of rebellion to the Criminal Code.
PP leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo also started his election campaign in Catalonia, one of the regions where he received the least votes in the country.
"Once we come to power, an open, strong and prosperous Catalonia will play a leading role in the reconstruction of Spain." Feijoo accused Prime Minister Sanchez of "collecting more taxes from the Spaniards, increasing the public debt, receiving more European funds than ever before, and not being able to account for where the money went" during the 8 years he was in office.
Far-right Vox, which has a history of only 12 years and has increased its votes in every election it has participated in so far, is shown as the only political party that will increase its votes in the elections on November 29.
Vox, which particularly highlights its anti-immigrant politics, made separatist and xenophobic election promises under the name of "national priority" in its election program.
If Vox came to power, he promised to provide social support only for Spaniards, to prevent illegal immigrants from accessing public health care and renting houses, to ensure that children from different cultures study in separate classrooms from Spaniards, and to ban face-covering clothing such as burqas and veils in public spaces throughout the country.
A total of 38 million 728 thousand 356 voters are registered in the early general elections to be held in Spain on November 29, 2 million 769 thousand 645 of whom reside abroad.
1 million 615 thousand 127 of them will vote for the first time in their lives.
