Partial results, based on the counting of 97 % of voting bulletins, grant the People’s Party 57 seats out of 109, against 31 for the Socialist Party.
Le Monde With AFP
The Socialists of the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, suffered, Sunday, June 19, a new electoral setback in their former fief of Andalusia (South), a key regional ballot which places the right in a position of Force at one year and a half of the next national elections.
According to partial results-97 % of stripped bulletins According to El Pais -, The People’s Party (PP, right), whose candidate Juan Manuel Moreno has chaired the region since 2018, has obtained an absolute majority in the Andalusian Parliament with 57 seats out of 109, against 31 for the Socialist Party (PSOE).
This reverse is the third consecutive inflicted by the right on the Spanish left during a regional ballot, after that of Madrid in May 2021 and that of Castille-et-Léon in February. A success that places the new head of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in a position of force for the next national elections planned for the end of 2023.
“hard blow” for the left, the PP “in A good dynamic “
The country’s most populated region, with 8.5 million inhabitants, Andalusia is a former historic bastion of the socialists who ruled it without interruption of 1982 in the last regional elections of 2018. Bidded by a scandal of Corruption, they had then been driven out of power by a coalition formed between the PP and the centrists of Ciudadanos, and supported in the regional parliament by the far -right party Vox.
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low progression of the far -right party Vox
By putting Pedro Sanchez in difficulty, containing the progression of the far -right party Vox and by disappearing Ciudadanos, which has not obtained any siege, the PP won on all the tables in Andalusia. Obtaining the absolute majority will indeed avoid having to govern in coalition with Vox, as he had to do recently in the region of Castille-et-Léon.
The extreme right had then entered for the first time in a regional government, endowed with large skills, since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. Third political force at the national level, Vox, which had burst On the Spanish political scene during the 2018 Andalusian regional regional, missed a lot on Sunday ballot but only recorded a low progression with fourteen regional deputies against twelve four years ago.
A new alliance with Vox would have weakened Alberto Núñez Feijóo, arrived at the head of the PP in early April defending a moderate line. “Andalusia shows us a way”, that of “moderation, dialogue, social progress”, he said recently, while Juan Manuel Moreno had called for “useful voting” for “a strong government”, which is not “conditioned” by Vox.
“There is a very visible strategy” of the PP to present itself “as a reasonable alternative” to the socialists for the next national elections, “a center-right option”, according to Oscar García Luengo, professor of political science at the University of Granada.