Now that all the polls predict a technical tie between the two major center-right and left-wing blocs just days before the elections next Sunday, November 10, it is a good time to reflect on the importance of being decisive with our vote.
It is no longer just a matter of making our convictions clear, but above all, ensuring that what we vote for is reflected in or decisive for the model of country we want.
In this sense, it is evident that the fragmentation of the center-right vote and the refusal of the other political forces to join our España SUMA initiative gives an advantage to the Socialist Party. Figures have even been mentioned in the polls that with a difference of 800,000 more votes, the center-right would obtain practically the same number of seats as the left-wing bloc.
In what affects us most closely, in terms of the Provincial Constituency of Las Palmas for the Congress list, there are 8 seats to be distributed and the electoral system, being a medium-sized constituency, reduces the proportionality in the distribution of seats tending towards a majority system. And this is without taking into account the effects of the D´Hondt Law.
In this scenario, and with the rules of the game that we do not discuss at all since they are the least bad, although seeing the current situation of deadlock perhaps we should be thinking about a two-round system, we have to be aware that voting for certain options of the same ideological spectrum of the Popular Party are very likely not to be reflected in the distribution of seats, favoring the opposing bloc.
To put it in other words and for practical purposes, it would be like voting without being able to count, because the options voted in third or fourth position, in small and medium-sized constituencies, are very likely not to enter the distribution of seats.
And what about the Senate!, where the difference of one vote means winning or losing the future Senator for Lanzarote and La Graciosa.
I would simply like to comment on a very significant fact. In the past general elections of April 28, the sum of the votes of PP, Ciudadanos and VOX would have been more than enough to unseat the Socialist Party.
I insist that in Lanzarote and La Graciosa we only elect one Senator and therefore, if we want the center-right to prevail, we cannot repeat the mistake of sending more than 7,600 votes to insignificance.
For these reasons I make a call to all those who share our model of Spain, our way of managing, our convictions, to SUMAR and make their vote decisive, so that we have a serious and responsible government for the next 4 years to VOTE FOR THE POPULAR PARTY.
* Joel Delgado, PP candidate for the Senate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa
