The ballot comes as Spain’s traditional bipartisan political landscape has fractured into five main political parties, including a far-right populist newcomer
A poster with a picture depicting Spain's Prime Minister and Socialist Party Leader Pedro Sanchez reads 'Make' as a sticker with a yellow ribbon reads 'freedom,' in Madrid, Spain, on April 22, 2019.Spanish politicians are swapping campaign buses for tractors, buddying up with hunters and inspecting homegrown tomatoes in Spain’s often-neglected rural regions as they hunt for votes in Sunday’s general election, one of the country’s most polarized votes in decades.
Spanish politicians across the political spectrum are seeking both photos of themselves in muddy boots and headlines promising more investments for rural jobs, better internet access and more local schools and health care centres. At a state-of-the-art game preserve down the road, a provincial candidate from the far-right Vox party was telling people that his upstart party will unapologetically defend hunting against “lefties, ecologists and animalists who tell rural dwellers how to live their lives.”
Barring any last-minute surprises, Vox is poised to grab 29 to 37 deputies in Spain’s 350-seat national parliament on Sunday, a big splash for a party that only last year made its first big advance with a win in the regional election in Andalusia, a Socialist stronghold. “It bothers me deeply when people climb onto tractors in a forced manner,” she said. “It’s an insult to those who live here.”
Fernandez wants to boost women’s roles in the countryside, subsidize young farmers taking over old operations and ensure that farmers have access to water.“There’s no future for the farmland without women or schools,” she said.
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