Madrid.- The electoral race officially started shortly before midnight Thursday with the classic scenes in which political leaders stick posters with their faces on the streets.
After the April 28 elections, this campaign will last just eight days, instead of the usual 15 days, and it will be once again overshadowed by the serious territorial crisis in Catalonia.
The recent Supreme Court ruling, with sentences up to 13 years in prison for nine independentist leaders for their role in the failed secession attempt from that northeastern region, in 2017, generated a wave of protests that should continue in the coming days.
For Monday, many separatist groups want to prevent the arrival of King Philip VI to Barcelona for an awarding ceremony, and the Democratic Tsunami platform, the blockade of the Barcelona airport organized, plans action on Saturday 9, a day for reflection.
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), Pedro Sánchez, who won the April elections but incapable of adding enough support to be invested in a very fragmented Parliament, called to mobilize to break the blockade in which Spain is plunged, with four elections in as many years.
The PSOE remains a favorite in the polls, although its advantage was reduced in recent weeks by the demonstrations erupted in Catalonia to reject the condemnation against its leaders, some of unprecedented violence in the independence movement.
According to left-wing parties, the Catalan crisis can become the perfect excuse for the PSOE and the PP to find meeting points that allow them to form a large coalition, and seek at least pacts to unlock forming a government. (PL)
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