President Pedro Sanchez announced this Friday that next April 28 national elections will be held. A date expected by many after he failed to get the budgets in Congress. And a date in a complicated year in which local and regional elections will also be held, in this case the May 26.
After knowing the announcement of Sanchez, we have polled the opinion of the spokesmen of the different political groups that currently make up the City of Dénia and that go beyond local borders on how this date can affect municipal voting.
The current mayor of Dénia, and officially mayoral candidate for the PSPV-PSOE, Vicent Grimalt, consider that it is "a date very close to the municipal and regional elections" but what "it has to be done when before better". In Grimalt's opinion, this date "can not come badly to the PSPV" to "clear an issue before ours," in reference to the political landscape. As for the result of the general elections, Grimalt does not venture to predict anything, but his will goes through Sanchez "and may the left rule", and especially "That the pact not be repeated in Andalusia".
Precisely that situation is what the candidate of the PP to the mayor's office, the councilor María Mut, for whom this electoral call favors his party "and above all to Spain". Mut is the hardest with the work of Sánchez's executive, who says that "I could not have done worse" and to whom you claim "a minimum of honesty and common sense".
Rafa Carrió, vice-mayor and candidate of Compromís to the mayor, he admits that "it was time to call elections", although he was betting on a "Super Sunday" in May, making the municipal, regional, general and European elections coincide. For Carrió "do not underestimate people", without considering that it may affect one or the other level that the voting coincides in the same day. Even so, the Compromís candidate is not clear that his party will favor this date. As for the result in the generals, he is convinced that it will be a diverse result that will force the parties to sit down to negotiate. He recognizes, yes, that he really expects a leftist government to govern.
A desire shared by the candidate for mayor for Podemos, Alex Rodenkirchen, who is confident that "people realize the need to approve progressive budgets like the ones they have laid this week". For the candidate of Podemos, the fact that both dates are so close in the calendar can "tire the electorate", and whether or not it favors her delivery "the voters will have to say it".
For his part, the Councilor for Citizens in the City of Dénia, Sergio Benito, considers that the date announced by Sánchez "it does not condition the local calendar at all". If it benefits local citizens or not, consider that "Last bull will always be easier to make calculations and forecasts". As for the results of the April 28, Benito is confident that "there is a change of government".
