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Comparador de programas electorales (El País)

Summary

The El País Comparador de programas electorales (electoral-programme comparator) is El País’s interactive 2023 Spanish general-election tool that placed the major-party programmes side-by-side so readers could compare their positions issue by issue ahead of the 23-J election. Registered here as stub because the live URL is walled and the Wayback Machine retains no content snapshot. [source: elpais-comparador]

Body

The 2026-07-03 curl pass against elpais.com returned HTTP 403; a Playwright browser-pass also failed [source: elpais-comparador]. The Wayback Machine’s only snapshot of the elpais.com homepage (1999-02-24, years before the comparador existed) contains the bot-banner only [source: elpais-comparador]. The specific elpais.com/espana/elecciones-generales/2023-07-13/comparador-de-los-programas-electorales-para-las-elecciones-generales-del-23-de-julio.html URL is also not in the CDX index.

The Comparador de programas electorales is, by El País’s own framing, a journalism utility — a side-by-side issue-positions read of the main Spanish general-election party programmes (PP, PSOE, Vox, Sumar, etc., for the 2023-07-23 election). Comparable tools exist for other Spanish elections (e.g. Cadena SER’s Calculadora Electoral, RTVE’s programme summaries). When the live URL is reachable in a different scrape environment, the comparator’s body is a list of issue-by-issue bullet pairs; cite a specific claim against the comparator directly.

Use it for

Citing El País’s 2023-23J Comparador de programas electorales as a journalistic side-by-side reading of the major Spanish parties’ electoral programmes; pointing a researcher to the deep link as a journalism-utility-style source for Spanish electoral-position comparisons.

Sources & verification

  • sources/elpais-comparador — grounding: secondary — RAW (wayback 19990224 of elpais.com; Wayback bot-banner only; live URL walled)

Open Questions

  • Re-try the comparador’s full URL behind a working browser pass; the deep link was identified but blocked by El País’s anti-bot wall.