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Opinion poll puts Spain's ruling PP in lead

Xinhua, August 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) would be taking the lead in terms of voter intention, a new opinion poll published by Spain's Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) reported on Wednesday.

The opinion poll showed PP would have 28.2 percent of support, despite losses suffered in the last regional and local elections held in May. PP would be followed by the main opposition party, the socialists PSOE, which would have 24.9 percent of support.

Left-wing party Podemos support decreased when compared with the last poll published in April, according to the CIS. The political party would take 15.7 percent of the vote as opposed to the 16.5 percent of April's poll.

Center-right party Ciudadanos would take a support of 13.8 percent, down from the previous 11.1 percent.

Asked about coalitions, Spaniards prefer a Socialist-Podemos coalition, 21.1 percent of voters would support it. Meanwhile, 11.6 percent would prefer the PP ruling alone and 5 percent would prefer a PP-PSOE coalition.

The poll also shows Spaniards' concerns: 79 percent of Spanish voters said that unemployment is their major concern as more than 4 million people are still unemployed due to the economic crisis. Unemployment is followed by public corruption and fraud, the economy and the political parties.

The CIS took the survey from July 1 to July 9 and the next poll will be taken in November. Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has not called for general elections yet, but they are expected to be held before the year ends. Endit