Usually when voters go to the polls they have an idea about competing politicians’ policies, and only a vague idea about which of them is going to win. But when Spaniards vote in early elections in one month’s time, they will know, almost for sure, who will win, though they’ve got only the faintest clue as to what that might mean.
As the November election approaches, public figures are taking a woefully cavalier attitude to facts and figures.
The Popular Party’s leader could be Spain’s new prime minister within a matter of months; which is why he needs to understand the responsibility he has not to further damage the country’s economic credibility with electoral scaremongering.
Guy Hedgecoe, co-editor of Iberosphere, looks beyond the May 22 local elections at the governing Socialist Party’s national primary following Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s decision not to seek reelection in the 2012 general election. With the party low in the polls, he ponders who will want to take over as leader.
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