Popular Party would win the elections in Spain according to an official survey

USPA NEWS - The conservative Popular Party (PP) of Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, would win the general elections in Spain, according to a survey on voting intentions conducted by the governmental Centre for Sociological Research (CIS in its Spanish acronym).

However, the PP would not obtain the absolute majority did manage four years and makes the necessary support for Mariano Rajoy was sworn in the first round for a second term. According to the CIS, the PP would win 28.6% of the vote and between 120 and 128 seats in Parliament. As would be the second political force Socialist Party (PSOE its acronym in Spanish) would get 20.8% of the vote and between 77 and 89 deputies. Third would be the centrist Citizens, with 19% of votes and between 63 and 66 seats, and fourth would be the populist Podemos, which achieved 15.8% of the vote and between 45 and 49 deputies.

The CIS survey is the last to be published before the start, at midnight on Thursday, the electoral campaign for the legislative elections of December 20. It is the first survey estimate voting legislative elections that includes Citizens and Podemos, two newly formed political parties. The leader of Citizens, Albert Rivera, is the politician who gets a better assessment of the respondents, with 4.98. The leader of the communist formation United Left (IU its acronym in Spanish), Alberto Garzon, is the second highest rated a 4.62. Thirdly the socialist Pedro Sanchez with a 4.59 followed by the leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, who gets 3.87. The worst score leader is the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, who barely 3.31.

If these results are met, the Popular Party could only govern in coalition with Citizens or the Socialist Party. Mariano Rajoy has it worse, which aims to repeat mandate but would not receive the support of Citizens, if the leader of this formation, Albert Rivera, keeps his word on this issue. Citizens is the fastest growing in voting intentions, although the two main political parties (PP and PSOE) stay ahead. The opposite happens to Podemos, which after a spectacular breakthrough in the political campaign for regional and municipal elections on last May, seems back in the preferences of citizens. 15.8% of the vote that awarded the CIS survey would stay at 9% if presented alone.