The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Monday that he is advancing the call for general elections for next July 23, after the defeat of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) in the municipal and regional elections this Sunday.
“I assume defeat firsthand,” Sánchez asserted in a brief appearance before the media at the gates of the Moncloa palace. “The best thing is that the Spanish men and women take the floor and pronounce themselves to define the political course of the country.”
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has made his debut as leader of the Popular Party (PP) in national elections, achieving a clear victory by snatching six autonomies from the left, including the Valencian Community or Aragon. For her part, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has achieved an absolute majority in the Community of Madrid, from where the party founded by Pablo Iglesias, United We Can, disappears.
28M has not been good for the communist left, which has been left out of numerous town halls and communities, as has happened in the case of Madrid. Electoral Sunday has practically certified the death of Ciudadanos (C’s), a recently created liberal party, while it has confirmed that the hard right represented by Vox is consolidating, although it is losing weight in the capital.
Two months before the general elections, the PP is the force with the most votes in the municipal elections with more than 7 million votes, around 800,000 ahead of Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE, which is very touched
Two months before the general elections, the PP is the force with the most votes in the municipal elections with more than 7 million votes, around 800,000 ahead of Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE, who is very touched by his direct participation in a campaign that is finally became a plebiscite against him.
The right thus turns around the result of 2019, when they were one and a half million votes behind the socialists.
After eating C’s, the popular ones won state elections again seven years later and compare this victory with 2011, when the victory of the PP was the prelude to the absolute majority of Mariano Rajoy in La Moncloa.
The PP has not only achieved the objectives set by Feijóo, Rajoy’s successor in the leadership of the party and candidate for the next general elections, in December, but has exceeded them. It maintains the governments of Madrid and Murcia and has wrested almost all its seats from the PSOE, including the most symbolic, the Valencian Community. Also Aragon or the Balearic Islands.
He has also ousted a socialist baron in one of the strongholds of that party, Extremadura, where the PP candidate will govern with a pact with Vox. In the Canary Islands, where it is the third force, the PP is given the numbers to govern with the Canary Islands Coalition.
Only three socialist barons have been saved from the “blue tide”: Emiliano García-Page in Castilla-La Mancha, Adrián Barbón in Asturias and María Chivite in Navarra.
The municipal map has also been dyed blue. The PP has tripled its power. It has won in some thirty provincial capitals and in another four it adds up as a second force with Vox.
In the Madrid City Council, José Luis Martínez-Almeida has won the absolute majority. The PP will also have the baton of command in the eight Andalusian capitals or in the Valencian capitals, Murcia or Oviedo. It will govern all the most inhabited cities, except Barcelona.
The euphoria that the Popular Party is now experiencing only has one but: Vox, whose ideology, to the right of the PP, also remains as an argument-lifeline for the left in its attempt to explain the defeat
The euphoria that the Popular Party is now experiencing only has one but: Vox, whose ideology, to the right of the PP, also remains as an argument-lifeline for the left in its attempt to explain the defeat. In La Rioja and Melilla the PP has achieved an absolute majority, like Ayuso in the Community of Madrid, but in the rest of the map Vox is key to governing.
This party conditions six autonomous governments. In Murcia, the PP alone adds more than the left, so it only needs the abstention of Vox.
However, in the Valencian Community the pact is essential and Vox has a candidate, Carlos Flores, whose sentence two decades ago to one year in prison for sexist violence complicates the alliance with the PP candidate, Carlos Mazón.
Vox is also decisive for Jorge Azcón, of the PP, to govern in Aragon or for Marga Prohens to govern in the Balearic Islands. Cantabria or Extremadura also depend on Vox.
Throughout the campaign and also on election night, the PP has avoided talking about pacts, despite the fact that Vox has warned that it will not give away its votes. Feijóo arrives, yes, with a position of strength for the negotiation. He is about to see the real autonomy of his barons to agree.
The PP leader also defends the proposal that the list with the most votes should govern through a reciprocal pact with the PSOE, which has little prospect of prospering despite the fact that this party has been severely weakened in these elections.
In addition, despite the clear advantage of the leader of the PP, the electoral map of the local elections has also uncovered two of his weak points: the Basque Country and Catalonia.
On the other hand, the polls have once again demonstrated the strength of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who already has an absolute majority, equaling herself with the other leader with the greatest weight in the party, Juanma Moreno, who is also reinforced in Andalusia, which was a stronghold of the PSOE for about 30 years.
The unappealable victory of the PP gives a clear boost to Feijóo in the face of the general elections, which were to be held within six months before the announcement by the Prime Minister.
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