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Rajoy's PP party dominant in Spain but under pressure from Ciudadanos: poll

Xinhua,May 08, 2018 Adjust font size:

MADRID, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The right-wing People's Party (PP) of Mariano Rajoy would still win the most votes if a general election were held now in Spain, but all four of Spain's main parties are close in voting intentions, according to a major opinion poll published on Tuesday.

The poll, by the Center for Sociological Investigations (CIS), is the first to be carried out and published since Cristina Cifuentes was forced to resign as the president of the Madrid Autonomous Community and as the regional leader of the PP on April 25.

Cifuentes stepped down following scandals over a master degree she apparently received without either attending classes, sitting exams or completing a course project and a video which showed her after being caught "stealing" two jars of moisturizing cream from a supermarket.

Despite these scandals, Rajoy's party would still win an election in Spain, but would only take 24 percent of the vote, falling 2.3 percent from the last CIS survey published three months ago.

Most votes lost by the PP would go to the center-right party Ciudadanos, who would win 22.4 percent of the votes compared with 20.7 percent in February. According to the CIS, the PP has seen a 7.5 percent fall in support over the last 12 months with all of that support moving to Ciudadanos.

Meanwhile the Socialist Party (PSOE) would take 22 percent of vote (1.1 percent down on the last poll) and the left-wing party Unidos Podemos 19.6 percent with a slight rise of 0.6 percent.

Rajoy's own image is also severely dented, with 52.1 percent of the 2,500 respondents in the poll saying they have "no confidence" in him, 30 percent saying they have "little" and only 1.5 percent having "a lot" of confidence in him.

Finally, 59.3 percent of those asked said Rajoy's government was doing a "bad" or "very bad" job. Enditem

 

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