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Tense atmosphere for Spanish Election Campaign which begins at midnight<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Spanish president, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, and the leader of IU, Gaspar Llamazares, will begin their parties\u2019 respective election campaigns in Madrid while the leader of the PP, Rajoy, will start his party\u2019s campaign in C\u00e1diz.<\/p>\n

Pre-election campaigning ended with tension rising on both sides when when Rajoy and Zapatero crossed words. Rajoy accused Zapatero of creating a tense situation and blamed him for the verbal attacks and interuptions suffered by opposition members Rosa D\u00edez, Mar\u00eda San Gil and Dolors Nadal when visiting various Spanish universities over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

Official campaigning for the general election begins at midnight tonight and will continue until March 7th, leaving the traditional one day of reflection before the general election which is due to take place on 9th March. According to the latest polls there is no clear leader and a significant percentage of the electorate remains undecided.<\/p>\n

The socialists will begin their campaign in the Palacio Municipal de Congresos del Campo de las Naciones, in Madrid with Zapatero together with the minister for Education, the PSOE candidate Mercedes Cabrera and the general secretary of PSOE in Madrid, Tom\u00e1s G\u00f3mez.<\/p>\n

Today PSOE presented their three new election campaign videos which can be seen in Cadenaser.com. In one of them a man collects his mother from a village to take her to vote even though she is a PP supporter, in another a young voter is excited about having the right to vote for the first time and in the last one an elderly member of the population is pleased that Zapatero has raised Spain\u2019s profile.<\/p>\n

Rajoy will begin the PP\u2019s election campaign in C\u00e0diz together with the PP candidate for presidency of the Andalucian regional government, Javier Arenas, and the PP candidate Te\u00f3fila Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n

C\u00e1diz has a special symbolic meaning for the PP for several reasons. Rajoy has called the city a modern symbol of Spanish constitutionalism due to the fact that the constitution was signed there in 1812. In addition, Rajoy began the PP\u2019s campaign for a national referendum on the Catalan statute on 31st January 2006.<\/p>\n

Gaspar Llamazares, the leader of IU will open his party\u2019s campaign in a former abattoir in Arganzuela, Madrid. The IU candiates Joaqu\u00edn Nieto, Montserrat Mu\u00f1oz and Marisa Castro, will also take part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tense atmosphere for Spanish Election Campaign which begins at midnight The Spanish president, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, and the leader of IU, Gaspar Llamazares, will begin their parties\u2019 respective election campaigns in Madrid while the leader of the PP, Rajoy, will start his party\u2019s campaign in C\u00e1diz. Pre-election campaigning ended with tension rising on both sides when when Rajoy and Zapatero crossed words. Rajoy accused Zapatero of creating a tense situation and blamed him for the verbal attacks and interuptions suffered by opposition members Rosa D\u00edez, Mar\u00eda San Gil and Dolors Nadal when visiting various Spanish universities over the last <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria","tag-spanish-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nSpanish election campaign begins - News from Spain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euroresidentes.com\/euroresiuk\/news-spain\/spanish-election-campaign-begins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spanish election campaign begins - News from Spain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tense atmosphere for Spanish Election Campaign which begins at midnight The Spanish president, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, and the leader of IU, Gaspar Llamazares, will begin their parties\u2019 respective election campaigns in Madrid while the leader of the PP, Rajoy, will start his party\u2019s campaign in C\u00e1diz. 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