Overwhelming victory of the Popular Party in the regional elections of Andalusia, a historic socialist fiefdom

With a historic result, the Popular Party won the regional elections in Andalusia this Sunday and the current president and interim candidate, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, has won an absolute majority, unprecedented, and will not have to agree with the far right of Vox.

the PSOE, which until 2018 had ruled the Andalusians for almost four decades, made his worst election in a field traditionally loyal to him: his candidate, Juan Espadas, gathered just 31 deputies, the worst result in the socialist history of Andalusia which, with this overwhelming result of the PP. confirm a right turn.

With Moreno Bonilla, a candidate who almost no one knew four years ago and who, despite this, joined his votes to the liberals of Ciudadanos and became president in 2018 without having won the electionsthe PP manages to seat 57 deputies in the Andalusian parliament.

In the last elections, Moreno Bonilla had hit the bottom of the PP. With only 26 deputiesthe most squalid figure reached by the Andalusian Populares, was left to the presidential presidency in a vote that, in terms of number of votes, had won the PSOE.

the far right

Vox, who entered Parliament for the first time in the 2018 elections and was in Andalusia, with 12 deputies, stuck in this election and its candidate, Macarena Olona, ​​adds only two more seats to those they already had.

Ciudadanos, the party that won the vice-presidency in 2018, disintegrates in the Andalusian parliament. He loses the 21 deputies he had. The current vice president and candidate in these elections, Juan Marín, will not leave his post until the renewal of the government. “I will resign to all positions in the party,” said Marín with 90 percent of the votes already counted.

About 6.6 million Andalusians voted for the 109 parliamentarians who will form the new Junta de Andalucía and elect the next regional president.

10 percent of the electorate decided their vote in front of the pollsaccording to pollsters who speculated on the figures.

own majority

By obtaining more than 55 seats, the PP you will not have to negotiate with other parties.

“I don’t want what Pedro Sánchez has, two governments fighting in one day and all day”, Moreno Bonilla said during the electoral campaign, alluding to the PSOE-Podemos coalition that governs Spain.

“I don’t want to govern with Macarena Olona (Vox candidate), I don’t want to be tied up”, the interim Andalusian president was honest, who swept the ballot boxes this Sunday.

The parties to the left of the PSOE, Por Andalucía and Adelante Andalucía, have performed poorly: the first group – which brought together Izquierda Unida, Más País – a split from Podemos by Pablo Iglesias -, Equo and the Andalusian Popular Initiative – won 5 seats and Teresa Rodríguez’s regional party, 2.

Why is all of Spain worried about this Sunday’s electoral results in Andalucia?

Because next year there will be regional, municipal and general elections and the scenario that takes place in Andalusia tests the stability of the PSOE coalition government by Pedro Sánchez with Podemos, and the possibilities of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the PP. the main opposition party, which took office in April and unsubstantially aspires to succeed Sánchez in La Moncloa.

Andalusia is also the community that contributes the highest number of seats to the arithmetic of the Spanish Congress of Deputies: 61 parliamentarians.

Polling stations in the eight provinces of Andalusia, Spain’s most populous community, opened at 9:00 am and closed at 8:00 pm.

By two in the afternoon, 34.25 percent of voters had already voted – in Spain voting is not mandatory as in Argentina -, four points more than in the 2018 elections. However, at six in the afternoon, turnout was 44.5 per cent, almost two points less compared to the last elections.

This Sunday, Election Day in Andalusia, the ruthless heat wave that punished Spain for days gave a respite and eased the temperature by more than 40 degrees. However, at the Virgen del Mar school in Almería, there was an Andalusian with a small ice cream and an umbrella. “I vote and go to the beach,” she assured.

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