Spain: The People’s Party maintains an absolute majority in Galicia, according to exit polls

The conservative People’s Party (PP) maintains an absolute majority in the regional elections held in Galicia, according to exit polls.

The PP obtains between 39 and 41 seats, compared to the current 43, in the Galician parliament, where the absolute majority is 38 deputies.

The Galician progressive nationalist bloc (BNG), second, obtains seven deputies and arrives between 25 and 26.

The Socialists, who currently have 14, would drop to a range between 9 and 12 deputies.

These are three polls that give the PPled at a national level by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, it has between 38 and 40 seats compared to the current 42.

All polls agree on a strong growth of the nationalist party BNG, which could gain up to seven more seats compared to the 2020 elections (from 24 to 26), accompanied by a decline of the socialists (PSdeG-PSOE), estimated up to five .fewer representatives, with a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 12 deputies compared to the current 14.

In Galicia, in the north-west of Spain, 2.7 million voters were called, of which over 475,000 resided abroadmany of them in Latin America, which represents 18% of the Galician electoral census.

On this occasion, 6.15% more voters abroad voted, five times more than in the previous elections in 2020.

The foreign vote counting will begin on February 26 and the process could last until the 29th at most.

In Argentina, popularly considered the fifth province of Galicia (the region has four), Nearly 200,000 Galicians could vote in these elections.

Cuba is the second country, after Argentina, with the largest number of voters in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) for this election with approximately 45,600.

Other countries with a significant colony of Galicians are Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela and Switzerland.

This Sunday’s regional elections were the twelfth since Galicia gained autonomy, and in most of them the PP won; Indeed, This party has governed Galicia since 1982, except for two legislatures (1987-1990 and 2005-2009), when the executive was chaired by socialists.

Since 2009, the People’s Party has governed, when Alberto Núñez Feijóo won with an absolute majority, a result he repeated in 2012, 2016 and 2020.

The current PP candidate, Alfonso Rueda, who replaced Feijóo in 2022 when he took over the PP presidency at the national level, faced the challenge of reconfirming that majority.

Source: ANSA and EFE