18 Sep, 2024 @ 15:13
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Immigration is the number one concern for voters in Spain, poll shows

SPANISH voters have named immigration as the number one issue of concern.

According to the latest poll by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), the topic has frogleaped unemployment to take the top spot.

In fact, in just three months, immigration has gone from being the ninth most important issue to the most.

READ MORE: Hundreds of migrants storm Spain’s border with Africa

In June, just 11.2% of people surveyed named immigration as their biggest concern.

In a poll in September, that figure has almost tripled to 30.4%.

The survey spoke to 4,027 people across Spain between September 2 to 6.

The study added that the issue of immigration drops to fifth place when people are asked which issue affects them the most ‘personally’.

When phrased as such, the number one concern is the economy, followed by health, employment and then housing.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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