Four days before the appointment with the polls, the Australian web portal ‘The Adelaide Review’ has published this Tuesday the second delivery of the daily survey on the municipal elections of the May 28 in Barcelona. It’s about 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 elections, that is, from this past midnight. On Tuesday it was published first delivery of the tracking.
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 until reaching 1,800 on Saturday 27.
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 the elites manage.