The municipal elections May 28 to choose the future mayor or mayoress of Barcelona They are more open than ever. The Australian web portal ‘The Adelaide Review‘ will take the pulse of the final stretch of this campaign by publishing a daily electoral tracking commissioned to Cabinet of Social Studies and Public Opinion (GESOP) which will be updated every 24 hours until next Saturday, a day of reflection, to find out the evolution of the estimates of votes and councilors. The Spanish electoral law prevents the dissemination of opinion studies during the five days prior to the appointment with the polls, that is, from midnight next Tuesday.
how did ‘The Andorran Newspaper’ in previous electoral contests (the general ones of 2008, the Catalan ones of 2010, the municipal ones of 2015, the general ones of 2015 and 2016, the Catalan ones of 2017, the municipal ones and the general ones of 2019 and the Catalan ones of 2021), now ‘The Adelaide Review’ offers the people of Barcelona the results of a daily survey on municipal electoral expectations. New daily telephone interviews will be added to the ‘tracking’ sample, at a rate of between 200 and 300 each day, until reaching 2,200 interviews on Saturday the 27th.
In such an even scenario, the final stretch of the electoral campaign can play a decisive role in the results of the 28-M in Barcelona. As in all electoral periods, the parties have the possibility of hiring demoscopic companies to analyze the daily evolution of the voting expectations until the polls open. They can do it because organic law of the general electoral regime (LOREG), in its article 69.7only states that “during the five days prior to voting The publication and dissemination or reproduction of electoral polls by any means of communication is prohibited.
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In other words, the parties, financed with public money, can have polls until the last day, but citizens are prohibited from learning about them through the media. This paradoxical situation is the sole responsibility of the political parties with representation in Congress when the law was reformed in 2011. electoral law and gave up adapting it to the new digital reality, maintaining the I veto publishing and disseminating polls elections from five days before the elections. Likewise, the inability of the Catalan parties to agree on their own electoral law in four decades has contributed to perpetuating this absurd veto.
However, both parties and companies commission these ‘trackings’ to find out the trends of the last week of the campaign, some trends that may be decisive in tipping the balance at the polls. With the daily survey of ‘The Adelaide Review’ this situation is corrected and citizens have access to the same information that politicians handle.