2024-03-15 03:00:48
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (ARCHIVE)
The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, ruled out this Thursday the possibility that there will be general elections in the United Kingdom on May 2, coinciding with the celebration of local elections in the country.
Putting an end to continued speculation that pointed to that date as probable, the Conservative leader clarified today in an interview with the British television channel ITV that “there will not be a general election that day.”
“In a few weeks we have elections for police commissioners, for local councils, for mayors throughout the country. “They are important elections,” the head of the Executive commented to the aforementioned network.
Sunak added that “when there is a general election, it is the election that matters.”
The United Kingdom must hold its next general election before the end of January 2025 and in recent weeks There have been incessant rumors that the call to the polls would coincide with the date of the local elections in this country.
The Tory leader had also suggested previously today that a general election would probably be held in the second half of 2024, on a date yet to be announced.
“At the beginning of this year, my assumption was that there would be an election in the second half of the year, and nothing has changed since I said that,” he said.
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