Voters went to the polls in Spain's northwest region of Galicia on Sunday in a close-run race where polls have suggested the opposition conservative People's Party (PP) could lose an absolute majority that it has held for 15 years. The PP have ruled the region for all but four of the past 35 years and their leader, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, is a former Galician regional government chief. A poll published on Feb. 11 by 40dB for El Pais newspaper found that 46% of voters would prefer a coalition of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) and the Socialist Party to the PP retaining power.
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Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Feb 18 (EFE).- Polls were open on Sunday for what is expected to be one of the most closely contested elections in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region in the past 15 years. Some 2.7 million voters have been summoned, of whom more than 18% live abroad – many of them in Latin …