Extremadurans will vote next Sunday with a backpack of the usual concerns on their backs. The GAD3 survey for ABC and the newspaper ‘Hoy’ asks and orders what issues are shaking and mobilizing citizens. At the head, and clearly visible, … The first problem is the lack of job opportunities and unemployment, which is the first or second concern for almost half of those surveyed.
Infrastructure and communications are far behind (at 29%), which is not surprising in an autonomous community which is visibly poorly communicated and where the problems of the railways which connect Extremadura to Madrid have made the news, in a negative way, quite frequently. Recently, and with the elections approaching, the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, recently promised a “great breakthrough for the Extremadura railway”, which is summed up in four new frequencies, from Monday to Friday, between Badajoz and Cáceres.
After these two questions, one of the major concerns emerges at the national level: access to housing (for 23%). And beyond that, health (18%) and depopulation and the loss of the young population (15%). Immigration, one of the most talked about topics nationally over the last year, is ranked tenth among concerns (and for only 3% of respondents it is a major problem).
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Lack of job opportunities and unemployment (47% between the first and second problem)
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Infrastructure and communications (29%)
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Access to housing (23%)
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Health (18%)
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Depopulation and loss of young population (15%)
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Political tension (9%)
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Situation of livestock and agriculture (8%)
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Lack of state investment (6%)
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Education (4%)
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Immigration (3%)
Political tensions are only a major problem for one in ten Extremadurians and the environment is only an issue for a tiny 0.2% of those surveyed.
Due to political affinities, concerns vary. They all agree to focus on the employment problem, but supporters of the Popular Party are more concerned about communication problems in the region and those of the PSOE, like those of Vox, are more concerned about access to housing.
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