Madrid (EFE) youth, especially housing, have been placed at the center of the political debate.
According to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), 1,570,299 voters residing in Spain are new to the census after having reached the legal voting age since the general elections on November 10, 2019.
This figure rises to 1,767,909 if the four-year period elapsed since the last municipal elections, held on May 26 of that same year, is computed.
In this way, 4.83 percent of the 36,585,840 people who will be able to exercise their right to vote on 28M in the municipal elections -17.46 million of them also in the regional elections that are held in 12 communities and in Ceuta and Melilla – will have the opportunity for the first time to decide with their ballot who will govern in their town and perhaps influence the orientation of the vote for the general elections later this year.
Measures aimed at young people
That 4.83%, more than one in 20 voters, a relatively important figure in the electorate as a whole, is part of the more than 7 million voters under 35 years of age – around a fifth of the total – to whom For example, the measure recently approved by the Government to guarantee 20% of its new mortgages through the ICO is being addressed.
A measure that the PP has not been slow to remember that is already applied in the communities in which it governs.
Also part of the 183,000 rental homes that the executive intends to put on the market in the coming years may be aimed at young people, in view of the difficulty that is generally assumed for them to obtain a mortgage to buy.
Another of the recent decisions of the Council of Ministers, also announced by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, at a PSOE rally, has been to allocate 560 million euros to train 5.5 million primary and secondary students in robotics and programming.
Likewise, the discounts on the Interrail, 50% in Europe and 90% within Spain, target the segment of the population between 18 and 30 years of age, which in this case is more than 5 million throughout Spain.
The community that incorporates the most new voters into the electoral roll on 28M compared to the general elections of November 2019 is Andalusia, with 309,740, followed by Catalonia, with 256,132, Madrid, with 222,440, and the Valencian Community, with 166,230.
By provinces, where the most young people have reached the age of 18 in that period between national elections are Madrid (222,440), Barcelona (189,914), Valencia (87,654), Seville (75,418), Alicante (59,550), Malaga (57,738), Murcia (57,029) and Cádiz (48,902).