Rajoy for re-election results outside … – Terra Colombia

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, assured today that will be the candidate for reelection by the Popular Party (PP, center-right) in the general elections this year, regardless of what happens on May 24 in regional and municipal elections.

“Yes, I want to be the candidate, and trust me, it will be well,” he said Rajoy, in an informative breakfast, to the many questions from reporters about it will be presented in elections general by his party whatever happens on 24 May.

According to the polls, the ruling PP would lose much of its support in the May elections.

Analysts say that the main danger to the PP may come from the newly formed Citizens, presented as an alternative center to the two traditional parties in the Spanish political scene, the Popular (PP) and the Socialists (PSOE).

In the same speech, Rajoy stressed that his

intention is that the elections are held at year end, when they touch, although not rule convene coinciding with regional Catalonia, announced in principle for 27 September “not slam the door,” he said.