2804|QUALITATIVE PROSPECTION. PRE-ELECTION ELECTIONS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2009

The generic objective of the study has been to determine the current climate of citizens and their mobilisation before the future electoral call. The list of specific objectives has been the following: — Sociopolitical climate. How the current ‘crisis’ is lived. — Assessment of the central government and the opposition. — What the parties or formations that stand for the European elections look like. — Elections to the European Parliament: attitudes towards Europe, perception and interest in its institutions, the vote before these elections (interest in participating vs. other reactions (mobilisation)), the cases of faithful vote, useful vote and dual vote, heads of list in the candidacies for the European elections. — Projection of future voting behaviors: attitudes and possible follow-up of the electoral campaign, voting situation and participation at present. All this taking into account the particularities of the autonomy in which the study has been carried out and the different trends in citizenship voting history. The driving guide of the test has initially focused on the elections to the Parliament European, to avoid excessive prominence of the hottest issues of the near present.