Activists from the Spanish People’s Party (PP, right) gather at the door of the party’s headquarters in Madrid from 8 p.m. local time (7 p.m. in Lisbon) for “the celebration” of victory in today’s parliamentary elections.
Shortly after 8 p.m., when two national television stations ran polls guaranteeing the PP’s victory in the election, dozens of party members were already on Genoa Street, in central Madrid, ready to celebrate the result, and the group hasn’t stopped growing.
In the afternoon, the party set up a stage from the balcony of the building, with a giant screen, with the “slogan” used by the PP in this campaign, “it’s the moment”, and a tarpaulin covering the facade of the building with the face of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
The militants raise the flags of Spain and the PP and concentrate on the streets of Genoa and Zurbano, which are already closed to traffic.
Not all of them waited for the polls to be released on television to head to the venue, confident that the party would win for days on end.
Ismael Serrano, 25, who made the hours-long journey from Toledo to Madrid in the late afternoon because he “likes to party”, already knew the PP would win and now hopes he will rule without the far-right VOX party.
Ismael guarantees that he used to belong to VOX, from a local structure, and “there is no democracy” in the far-right party.
“The PP is the only party that has always pushed Spain forward,” he added, pleased with the polls that confirmed the defeat of the socialists, who “destroyed everything”, with laws such as self-determination between men and women and others defending “the inhabitants” of houses.
Francisco Quesada, a 19-year-old student, also came from Ciudad Real, on a high-speed train, with his mother and cousin for “the celebration” of the PP’s victory in Madrid.
Francisco is from the Popular Youth and he only heard from Lusa that the polls released at 8pm gave the party victory.
He said that “he hadn’t even gone to see it”, he was so sure he was already in the win.
The possibility of a coalition with VOX does not bother him or the rest of the family.
“There is a lot of difference between what is said and what is there,” cousin Judite Quesada justifies.
The People’s Party is expected to win elections in Spain today, but will need to form a coalition with VOX to secure a government majority, polls by Spanish television channels TVE and Telecinco show.
The polls were released at 8 p.m. local time (7 p.m. in Lisbon) when polling stations close, except in the Canary Islands, where voting lasts until 9 p.m. (8 p.m. in Lisbon).
Source: DN
