If the poorest 70% could be persuaded to vote with even half that commitment, a victory for the broadly defined left the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), the Greens-style More Madrid and the radical UP would be certain.
When May 4 arrived, the participation rate certainly leaped, climbing from 64.27% at the 2019 poll to 76.25%, as an extra 400,000 turned out to vote, despite the ongoing COVID-19 danger.
However, this tide was overwhelmingly composed of people intending to vote for the PP of incumbent Madrid premier Isabel Ayuso, or for the racist Vox, led by Rocio Monasterio, granddaughter of a Cuban landowner expropriated in the 1959 revolution.
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