• Polls published Sunday all see Partido Popular slipping, but still in first place
• Unidos Podemos coalition seen eclipsing Socialists, moving into second place
The conservative Partido Popular (PP) is pegged to hold onto a comfortable lead in the overall vote tally in the 26th June (26-J) general elections, but the second place finish is given to the left-wing Unidos Podemos coalition over Spain’s mainstay centre-left Socialist party (PSOE), according to the latest voter opinion surveys from leading polling organisations published on Sunday.
The PP is set to again win the greatest number of votes, with the DYM poll conducted for the daily newspaper El Confidencial projecting 29 percent of the vote total for 116-117 seats in Congress, while the latest Metroscopia poll for El País projects 113-116 seats for the PP and the Sigma Dos poll for El Mundo projecting the conservative party will win 20.5 percent of the votes for 124-129 seats in the Congress.
The Socialists are projected to suffer a significant loss of their share of the vote total as compared to the December 2015 general election, holding onto just 81-82 seats in Congress according to DYM poll; likewise, the latest Metroscopia poll gives the Socialists anywhere from 78-85 seats in Congress and the Sigma Dos poll sees the PSOE’s number of seats in Congress drop further to as few as 73-78 seats in the lower house of parliament.
All three polls see the left-wing Unidos Podemos coalition surpassing the PSOE to move into second place, with the DYM poll seeing Unidos Podemos winning 85-89 seats in Congress, the Metroscopia poll seeing Unidos Podemos winning as many as 92-95 seats and the Sigma Dos projecting the win of 86-92 seats for Unidos Podemos in the next Congress. Centre-right Ciudadanos is projected to again place forth, netting about the same number of seats (40) in Sunday’s balloting as it did in the last election on 20th December.
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