The undecided are more and more. Citizens take their time to deliberate which candidate to vote for and some are not able to make a firm decision until the day they go to the polls, and they do so almost in front of the polling stations. It is not so much about a habit that is now so fashionable and questioned as that of procrastinating – postponing an obligation until the last moment – ??but about the inability to choose an option that satisfies or is less harmful to the interest of the voter. For many, it is about choosing the lesser evil.
According to the Center for Sociological Research, 35.2% of citizens are still not sure who they will vote for on July 23. Many citizens move these days in a sea of ??doubts. And contrary to what one might think of electoral campaigns, although many have the feeling that politics is permanently installed in them, they end up being a few decisive days to convince this group of undecided. 22.8% of voters confess that they end up deciding which party or coalition to vote for during the campaign, and 5.9% do so on the day of reflection.
Those who present the most doubts are women, people who define themselves as being from the center, young people between 18 and 24 years of age, voters without studies and those who consider themselves to be of the lower class. The political parties will mainly address them in a campaign that started this Thursday and in which the polarization between Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo will be decisive in the results. The two parties that were born to put an end to bipartisanship, Cs and Podemos, are no longer there, and in this campaign it matters more who a coalition government is agreed with than management or electoral promises. This is the lesson that can be drawn from 28-M.
