SPANISH president Mariano Rajoy has denied rumours that the general elections may be put back to December this year, although he has previously countered claims he was thinking of bringing them forward to September.
When asked about when Spaniards may be going to the polls, the PP leader replied that 'to be absolutely frank' he did not yet know what the date would be.
Rajoy merely confirmed the elections would be 'at the end of the year'.
At first he said he 'could not be sure' that the nation would be casting its ballots in December, but in a subsequent interview on Spain's Channel 5, TeleCinco, the president gave a firm 'no' when asked if election day would be a date on the Advent calendar.
This said, when the TV reporter asked if the elections would be in November, Rajoy replied that he 'could not say'.
As a result, nobody is really sure when they will be voting in their national government for the next four years.
Former Madrid regional president and unsuccessful mayoral candidate for the city, Esperanza Aguirre, who is also on the PP has told Rajoy he should hold elections in September to coincide with the regional polls in Catalunya.
And rumours began that the elections would indeed be brought forward, but Rajoy denied those.
His immediate rival, PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez, has publicly called for the president to convene the general elections 'now'.
But Rajoy says before he dissolves Parliament, he wants to get next year's budget agreed and rubber-stamped in order to provide 'certainty and security'.
"I'm going to work with diligence, reason, arguments, and by speaking to as many of the Spanish public as I can," Rajoy announced.
And his in-tray is full to bursting, with 46 pending new laws he wants to get signed off before the elections.
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