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Ciudadanos leader: Spanish politics in ‘new era’

But whether it will manage to do so – and with whom – remains a mystery as the main opposition Socialists are expected to come neck-and-neck with two upstart parties campaigning for change, the centrist Ciudadanos and anti-austerity Podemos.

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Spaniards head to the polls on Sunday to cast their ballots in one of the most unpredictable general elections in the country’s recent history.

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Ahead of the vote, the party leaders made a point of relaxing as they observed a “day of reflection”.

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Spaniards are voting in a watershed election that will likely mark the end of an era of two-party dominance through the creation of a minority or coalition government.

Spanish politics have been dominated by issues such as unemployment, corruption, inequality and an independence drive by the prosperous northeastern region of Catalonia.

“They’ve completely overturned the bi-party model that we’ve all known”.

But Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy can no longer count on their votes because they are both looking at Citizens, which only launched on the national stage a year ago and claims to occupy the political centre-ground.

Rivera and Garzon were the only main party leaders to cast their votes outside of the capital of Madrid, with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy voting in the Bernadette College at 10:55 and UPyD’s Andres Herzog at around 10:45.

With many people saying they are willing to shake up a political system they consider corrupt and unable to resolve Spain’s economic woes, the outcome is the most uncertain in the 40 years since the end of the Franco dictatorship and the return of democracy.

If the projections are confirmed, analysts said it could make it extremely hard for the Popular Party to form a government because it wouldn’t get a majority of seats in parliament by allying with Ciudadanos, its most natural partner. “The two-party system has ended”.

Because of Spain’s economic struggles, the anti-austerity party Podemos has shot up in the polls into double figures, percentagewise, despite its being founded in 2014: The party now holds more than 100 seats in regional legislatures. He’s asking voters not to put the economic recovery at risk and warning of the dangers of a pact between Podemos and the Socialists.

Political science professor Pablo Iglesias and his radical left Podemos party want to break the mold of Spanish politics.

Ciudadanos (Citizens) leader Albert Rivera speaks to journalists after casting his vote at a polling station in Barcelona on Sunday.

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The Socialist Party, with 20.5 percent, was running neck-and-neck for second place with Podemos, with 21.7 percent, the poll said. A source in his ruling conservative Popular Party, who refused to be named, said the 60-year-old conservative Spanish leader was walking through the city of Pontevedra on the latest stop of his push for re-election in Sunday polls when the incident happened. To complicate matters further, Albert Rivera, the Ciudadanos leader, has said he will not back Mr Rajoy as prime minister but would rather abstain.

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