- Sputnik International
World
Get the latest news from around the world, live coverage, off-beat stories, features and analysis.

Exit Polls Project Leftist Victory in Madrid, Barcelona in Mayoral Election

© AFP 2023 / LLUIS GENE A man carrying a dog casts his ballots in the Spain's municipal and regional elections at a polling station in Barcelona on May 24, 2015
A man carrying a dog casts his ballots in the Spain's municipal and regional elections at a polling station in Barcelona on May 24, 2015 - Sputnik International
Subscribe
A left-wing candidate from the Ahora Madrid social movement is projected to win the Spanish capital's mayoral election.

MADRID (Sputnik) — A left-wing candidate from the Ahora Madrid social movement is projected to win the Spanish capital's mayoral election, the Federation of Regional Organizations of Radio and Television (FORTA) reported on Sunday.

Manuela Carmena, a judge by trade, is ahead of the ruling center-right People's Party (PP) candidate, Esperanza Aguirre, with a two-percent margin.

NATO Soldiers walk under country member flags at a NATO base at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan - Sputnik International
Madrid Activists Protest Against NATO Military Bases in Spain
The Barcelona en Comu public movement's leader, social activist Ada Colau, is also ahead by a narrow margin, according to the regional TV-3 channel's exit poll.

Both Carmena and Colau are backed by the left-wing Podemos movement.

Polling stations across 8,122 municipalities and most autonomous regions and cities closed at 8:00 pm local time (18:00 GMT).

The anti-austerity movements' victories may shake up Spain's two-party system, which traditionally features Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's People's Party and the rivalling Socialist Party (PSOE).

Newsfeed
0
To participate in the discussion
log in or register
loader
Chats
Заголовок открываемого материала