DEADLOCK between two pro-independence parties has been broken three days before the Catalan election, according to the latest poll.
Junts (Together) is set to win with 32-35 seats (34 in 2017) and 20.3% of the vote, with the pro-union Socialist Party (PSC) second with 29-30 seats (now 17) and 20.2% of the vote.
The Republican Left (ERC) would be third with 27-28 seats (now 32) and a 17.7% vote share.
This was the result of a Feedback survey for The National this afternoon, three days before the elections to the Catalan Parliament. The survey is based on telephone tracking updated daily.
On Saturday, the “day of reflection”, we will offer two sets of results, afternoon and evening.
Junts, led by exiled former president Carles Puigdemont, and ERC, whose leader and former vice-president Oriol Junqueras is in prison, had been neck-and-neck until this update.
The PSC, led by former health minister Salvador Illa, took second place, and ERC was predicted to come third and likely to lose the battle to lead the indy camp to their power-sharing partners in the outgoing government.
Ciutadans (Citizens), currently the main unionist force (36 seats out of 135 in 2017), is in free fall, but bounced back slightly to 13-14 seats and 10.3% of the vote. Their electorate would be largely lost to the socialists and the far-right Vox.
Alternative left-wing party En Comú Podem advanced to 10-12 seats (8 in 2017) and 8.5% of the vote. CUP, an anti-capitalist party and third force in the pro-indy bloc, moderates its rise, and would win 7.08% of the vote and 9 seats, more than double its 2017 results.
Behind is Vox, down slightly on Wednesday’s poll: 5.1% of the vote and 5-6 seats. The pro-union conservative Popular Party would win 4.06% of the vote and 3-5 seats (4 in 2017). PDeCAT, pro-indy centrists, win no representation, with 2.2% of the vote.
Pro-indy parties would thus revalidate their current majority in Parliament with the likelihood of gaining between 69 and 75 seats (Junts, ERC and CUP won 70 in 2017). The absolute majority is 68.
The bid by Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, to evict the pro-indy government from power via Illa’s campaign is predicted to fail.
However, the estimated voter turnout continues to fall – to 57.6% from 58.6% – and the number of undecideds, running very high, has dropped slightly from 30.2% on Wednesday to 29.1% today, leaving much uncertainty in the final outcome of the elections in the middle of the pandemic.
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Virtual desempat a tres dies de les eleccions catalanes del diumenge que ve. La candidatura independentista de Junts per Catalunya, guanyaria el 14-F amb entre 32-35 escons (34 el 2017) i un 20,33% dels vots. El PSC, que aspira a liderar el bloc unionista, seria segona força amb 29-30 escons (ara en té 17) i un 20,28% dels vots, i ERC quedaria tercera amb 27-28 escons (ara en té 32) i un 17,76% dels sufragis.
Aquest és el resultat d’un sondeig de Feedback per a The National tancat aquest dijous, a tres dies de la celebració dels comicis al Parlament de Catalunya. L’enquesta es basa en un tracking telefònic que s’actualitza cada dia. Dissabte, el dia de reflexió anterior a la jornada electoral, tindrà dues entregues.
Les últimes 24 hores semblen haver aclarit les posicions en la capçalera de la cursa electoral, amb Junts, la formació del president exiliat Carles Puigdemont al capdavant. El PSC, encapçalat per l’exministre de Sanitat, Salvador Illa, en segona posició, i ERC, la formació independentista del vicepresident empresonat, Oriol Junqueras, que seria tercera força i perdria el duel per l’hegemonia de l’independentisme amb Junts, amb qui comparteix al Govern sortint.
Els unionistes de Cs confirmen una lleu millora, amb 13-14 escons i 10,30% dels vots, si bé el seu electorat —van ser la primera força el 2017 amb 36 diputats— se’l repartirien en bona mesura socialistes i extrema dreta.
En Comú Podem, formació d’esquerra alternativa, avança fins a 10-12 diputats (en va aconseguir 8 el 2017) i un 8,58% dels vots. La CUP, anticapitalista i tercera força del bloc independentista, modera l’ascens, i n’obtindria el 7,08% i 9 diputats, més del doble (4) dels que va sumar el 2017. Per darrera queden l’extrema dreta de Vox, que baixa en comparació amb el sondeig d’ahir, amb un 5,12% i 5-6 diputats i el PP, conservador, amb un 4,06% i de 3 a 5 diputats (4 a les anteriors eleccions). No obté representació el PDeCAT, amb un 2,21% dels vots.
El bloc independentista revalidaria la seva actual majoria al Parlament amb una forquilla d’entre 69 i 75 escons (Junts, ERC i la CUP van reunir 70 seients al 2017). La majoria absoluta són 68. Fracassaria l’operació del president espanyol, Pedro Sánchez, per desallotjar als independentistes del Govern amb el socialista Illa. No obstant això, la participació estimada continua baixant: ara és del 57,65% (58,61% al sondeig anterior) i la previsió d’indecisos, molt elevada, baixa molt lleugerament: 29,1% (30,2% dimecres), la qual cosa afegeix molta incertesa al resultat finals dels comicis en plena pandèmia de coronavirus.
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