Voted Best
ISSUE NO. 1793
14 - 20 November 2019
Newspaper in Spain 2017 & 2018
COSTA DE ALMERÍA YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
THREE-PARTY TIE S U N D AY ’ S general e l e c t i o n p ro d u c e d a t h re e - p a r t y d r a w i n Almeria. The left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE), the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and the far-right Vox all gained two seats in the Congress of Deputies. In terms of vote share however, it was PSOE which just pipped the other two parties to victory. The Socialists polled 88,425 votes in Almeria, representing 29.43 per cent of the total. This was pretty much the same result for PSOE as in the spring general election. However, the Almeria results reflect the national picture of a significant shift to the right this time. Vox did better than PP with 26.75 per cent, or 80,397 votes overall. This was a sizeable leap up from the 16.32 per cent, or 62,648, of Almerians who voted for the party on April 28. The result gave Vox one more deputy than before and established it as the province’s second most important political force. PP got 77,751 provincial votes (25.87 per cent), a notable improvement on the 73,952 the party won six and
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VOTE WINNERS: The left-leaning PSOE party gained a bigger share of the vote than the conservative PP and far-right Vox.
dadanos in Almeria. It gained 8.02 a half months ago. The centrist Ciudadanos had a bad night. The party lost its one Almeria deputy after getting just 7.54 per cent with 22,645 votes. This was a massive drop from its 18.82 per cent share last time, when it won 56,268 votes. The leftist Unidas Podemos (UP) remains without provincial representation in the national parliament, although the party did at least do better than Ciu-
per cent of the votes cast, or 24,089. This was just slightly less than in April.
In the provincial vote for the Senate, PP and PSOE gain two members apiece. Electorate turnout in the province for what was the fourth general election in four years was 65.88 per cent.
BEACHED BEAK
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IT was a sad ending for a beak whale which beached on an Almerimar beach early on Monday morning. Local Police and members of the Equinac marine life rescue association went to try and help the five-metre long female following an alert from El Ejido municipal cleaning service personnel. The creature was still alive when they got there, but according to Equinac it was badly injured and suffering, leaving no option but to put it down. The local council had to get in a crane to be able to move the dead whale to Equinac’s Almerimar centre for an autopsy. In accordance with the established protocol on the species this has to be carried out by experts, who are based in the Canary Islands. Posting on Facebook, Equinac commented that when a lone cetacean of this size beaches it is because it is sick or suffering.