DEBATS · Annual Review, 5 · 2020 — 11 / 25 DOI: http://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-en.2020-1 ISSN 2530-898X (print) ISSN 2530-8262 (electronic) A Look at Valencia’s Elections of the 28th of April and the 26th of May 2019 Salvador Enguix Oliver UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA (UV)
[email protected] ORCID: 0000-0003-3597-5230 Benjamín Marín Pérez UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA (UV)
[email protected] ORCID: 0000-0001-8957-7647 Received: 28/10/2019 Accepted: 17/02/2020 ABSTRACT This paper analyses the main features of the Valencian media coverage of the elections held in Spain in the Spring of 2019 (General, Regional, Municipal, and European elections). We shine a spotlight on the key themes covered by the main newspapers, radio and TV stations, and on the campaign strategies parties used to define ideological blocs on the left and right. Keywords: election campaigns, Valencian Autonomous Community, elections, candidates, debates, mass media, press. Corresponding author: Salvador Enguix Oliver. Departament de Teoria dels Llenguatges i Ciències de la Comunicació Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 32 - 46010, València (Spain). Suggested citation: Enguix Oliver, S. and Marín Pérez, B. (2020). A Look at Valencia’s Elections of the 28th of April and the 26th of May 2019. Debats. Journal on Culture, Power and Society, 5, 11-25. DOI: http://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-en.2020-1 INTRODUCTION AND AIMS both in Spain and in the Valencian Autonomous On the 28th of April, Pedro Sánchez (Spain’s President) Community [autonomous region]. This paper analyses decided to bring forward the date of the Spanish how the electoral campaigns changed as a result, General Election to the 26th of May 2019.