They say that today in politics there is a permanent electoral pre-campaign, and the truth is that in Spain this will be the case in the coming months. Three chain elections will mark a devilish electoral calendar until next summer. Euskadi, Catalonia and the European elections are in contention.
The first electoral contest will be the elections to the Basque Parliament, on April 21. The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, called them in the month of February. He had options to extend them until July.
The parties have already begun to reveal their cards. PNV chooses to face concern about the situation of the Basque Health Service-Osakidetza, while EH Bildu talks about housing, the main concern of young people, and the PSE marks its distance from the nationalist coalition, reports Ander Goyoaga.
After the failure of the negotiation to approve the budgets, this week the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, called elections to the Parliament of Catalonia for next May 12.
12-M and the amnesty has left Catalan politics in a state of exception, reports Silvia Angulo. Aragonès will be the ERC candidate and Salvador Illa the PSC candidate. The former president Carles Puigdemont maintains the unknown as to whether he will be the effective president of Junts and the commons have not yet formally elected Jessica Albiach as a candidate.
From June 6 to 9, the entire European Union will vote in the elections to the European Parliament, which will be held specifically in Spain on the 9th. It will be the event that will close this marathon of elections.
The European elections will be decided between the climate and national identity, analyzes Xavier Mas de Xaxàs. Warming and immigration are the issues that most concern Europeans.
