2023 is presented as a year in which the majority of Spaniards will have to vote up to three times. And it is that municipal, regional and general elections will be held. The first two will arrive hand in hand in the first half of the year, while those that will be elected by the Government of Spain will tend more towards the end of the year.
Next, we break down the dates on which the elections will take place.
The first elections of the year take place in 12 communities, as well as Ceuta and Melilla, as well as in all Spanish town halls. The regional and municipal elections will take place on Sunday, May 28, four years after the previous ones (2019). The 28-M electoral campaign will officially begin on May 12.
Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra and La Rioja are the communities that have an appointment on 28-M, as well as the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla . In other words, there are regional elections in all the territories except Galicia and the Basque Country, Catalonia, Andalusia and Castilla y León.
For the experts it is a kind of referendum for the Government of Pedro Sánchez and the opposition facing the generals. In this sense, the focus is on the places where the PSOE governs: the Valencian Community, Aragon, Asturias, the Balearic Islands, Rioja, Castilla-La Mancha, Navarra, Extremadura and the Canary Islands. The continuity or change of power in those parliaments will be read as the prelude to what will happen a few months later.
And it is that the Spaniards will go to the polls again at the end of the year for the general elections. Although the hypothesis of an electoral advance has been a constant in recent times, Pedro Sánchez will exhaust the XIV Legislature at the head of the first left-wing coalition government of democracy, except for a major last-minute surprise.
It should be remembered that Sánchez was sworn in as president on January 7, 2020, so the maximum date to hold the elections is December 10, 2023, that is, four years and one month after the previous elections (November 10, 2019). This will be so as long as the President of the Government does not make use of his early dissolution power. If the general elections are held on 10-D, the Cortes would have to be dissolved on October 16.
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