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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Andalucíans vote in election seen as gauge of Spain’s wider political change

Moreno Bonilla speaks at podium bearing the words 'Con la fuerza de Andalucía' in the middle of an audience wearing white and green T-shirts
Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, the People’s party candidate and the region’s incumbent president, at a rally in Málaga this week. Photograph: Jesús Mérida/Sopa Images/Shutterstock

Voters in the southern Spanish region of Andalucía are casting their ballots in an election that is likely to deliver an absolute majority to the conservative People’s party (PP) and inflict another debilitating defeat on Pedro Sánchez’s embattled socialists in what was previously one of their proudest strongholds.

Sunday’s election in Spain’s most populous region – the last big poll before next year’s general election – will serve as a barometer of wider electoral opinion and could also reveal whether the popularity of the far-right Vox party is beginning to peak.

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