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WORLD NEWS Friday 12 april 2019
Spain campaign to see far right, Socialists fight for votes

JOSEPH WILSON far-right party Vox could was crucial to the Popular
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) win around 10% of the and Citizens parties kicking
— Spain's political parties vote, adding a fifth nation- the Socialists out of power
are set to start campaign- al party of significant size to in Spain's southern Andalu-
ing for a general election the Congress of Deputies, sia region in January.
this month in which the rul- the lower chamber of the Drumming up votes for the
ing Socialists are trying to Spanish parliament. Socialists is important, San-
remain in power and the A government opinion poll chez said, because his is
extreme right is seeking to published this week fore- "the only party that can
enter Parliament. cast that the Socialist Party stop the three parties of the
The official campaign pe- would displace the conser- right."
riod that starts at midnight vative Popular Party as the "Spain needs stability, re-
Thursday promises to be election's top vote-getter forms and a future, not the
a fierce fight for the large but fall short of winning retrogression like the one
pool of undecided voters enough for an outright par- that the three right-wing
identified in election polls. liamentary majority. parties are proposing," Sán-
Support from those voters The government poll also A poster of Spanish Prime Minister and Socialist Party candi- chez told Spanish television
could be key to whether found that that 41% of date Pedro S•nchez is stored in a garage in Ciudad Real, Spain, channel La Sexta.
the Socialist government those polled were unsure Thursday, April 11, 2019. While Sánchez is running on
led by Prime Minister Pedro how they would mark their Associated Press his pledge to spend more
Sánchez continues on or ballots. The poll of 16,194 on social programs, the
the election ushers in a co- potential voters conducted with the center-right Citi- chez may depend on the most polarizing issue of the
alition government made March 1-18 was much larg- zens party. how well the upstart far right campaign will be the unre-
up of right-wing parties. er than other polls in Spain. The chances for new Pop- party Vox performs. Vox, solved crisis from the Cata-
The national election on Sánchez's most likely op- ular Party leader Pablo with its anti-immigration lonia region's failed bid to
April 28 will be Spain's third tions for staying in power Casado to replace Sán- and ultra nationalist views, secede two years ago.q
in four years, a pace that rest on either his Socialists
reflects political fragmen- maintaining support from
tation from the emergence the far-left Podemos party
of new parties. and some regionalist par-
Polls indicate the upstart ties, or on striking a deal

The sun rises over the buildings of the banking district in Frank-
furt, Germany, Thursday, April 11, 2019.
Associated Press
German authorities raid

homes, offices in tax

fraud probe

Associated Press so they could collect
BERLIN (AP) — German reimbursement for taxes
prosecutors have searched they hadn't paid, costing
over a dozen offices and taxpayers across Europe
homes across the country billions of euros (dollars).
as part of their investigation Frankfurt prosecutors said
into a massive tax fraud about 170 officers raided
going back more than 19 premises in four German
a decade, officials said states Tuesday. In total,
Thursday. German authorities are
The scheme involved so- conducting 10 separate
called cum-ex transactions investigations into cum-ex
in which participants would schemes, some of which
lend each other shares involved bank employees.