Result of the Galician elections of 12-J

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has won the 2020 Galicia Elections and revalidates for the fourth consecutive time its absolute majority with four more seats than necessary. The PP has achieved 42 deputies and strengthens its authority even in times of coronavirus. Participation was concerned but the fear dissipated with the first data that reflected a four-point rise in the morning.

Euphoria in the Popular Party and reinforced nationalism

Alberto Núñez Feijóo achieved his fourth absolute majority with 42 seats, four more than the 38 needed for an absolute majority. Ana Pontón in front of the BNG give the sorpasso to the socialists and get 19 deputies; the socialists of Gonzalo knight they remain as the third force surpassed by the nationalists with 14 representatives in the Galician chamber. Podemos disappears from the Galician Parliament.

The Galician Elections 2020 make history for many reasons, because they had to be postponed due to the coronavirus and because they have finally been held without the pandemic having ended. Despite concerns about the effect of the coronavirus on the scrutiny, participation had already risen four points in the morning.

Polls and surveys were below the PP data

The exit polls of the 2020 Galician Elections were not correct and did not give all the guarantees to Núñez Feijóo for the absolute majority. They did reflect a sorpasso of the BNG on the Galician socialists. They were the headlines of FORTA’s poll of public televisions. They granted the PP between 37 and 40 seats, the absolute majority is at 38; the BNG would take off in a spectacular way with between 19 and 22 seats; the socialists would obtain between 12 and 14 and Galicia in common Podemos would remain at 2.

The polls previous Galician elections 2020 did give the leader of the Galician PP Alberto Núñez Feijóo as the winner in a panorama marked by the coronavirus and outbreaks and that has strengthened the speech these days of the candidate towards the need for a absolute majority in order to govern, the dreaded abstention has worried the entire campaign. Feijóo risks everything to maintain power in the elections in Galicia and the left faces an unprecedented scenario, a Hard battle after the collapse of the En Marea phenomenon.

From the En Marea phenomenon to the new pulse on the left

The formation broke into the elections in Galicia in 2016 and went from raising up as leader of the opposition to showing that it was a giant with feet of clay, severely punished with the loss in the municipalities of relevant mayors. The union then of Podemos, Esquerda Unida, Anova and the citizen tides swept away and managed to give the socialists the sorpasso that were relegated to the third option for the Galicians. The internal battles They finished with them and left a space for possible scenarios for this Sunday. The heirs in part of that En Marea, now integrated with the Galicia En Común-Anova-Mareas brand, seek to maintain some of the relevance lost in the game of pacts in favor of the left and against a new mandate of the popular ones.

This time, however, the panorama of the left is led by the socialists of the PSdeG and the BNG who seek the leadership of the left even if it is through a tripartite. The main goal is to evict Alberto Núñez Feijóo and if it is not possible to command the opposition.

The BNG and make history like a phoenix

The BNG has the hope of the phoenix after two regional Galician elections, those of 2016 and 2012, in which his political weight was thinning towards irrelevance. Since the departure of the historical leader Xosé Manuel Beiras, they did not have a better opportunity than in these elections in Galicia 2020, and that opportunity has a woman’s name Ana Pontón. The leader of the nationalist formation is convinced that she will make history, win and be the first woman president of the Xunta de Galicia. In 2016 he already surprised with six deputies when the polls erased them from the parliamentary map or gave them three seats in the most optimistic case.

Socialists speak of victory after the 2016 sorpasso

And in that battle of the left to become president of the Xunta, the socialist Gonzalo Caballero made his debut with a speech confident in the renewed strength of the PSdeG and sure that there will be no more sorpasso As in the Galician elections of 2016, then the force of En Marea took it ahead and now they deny that the BNG will achieve it. The candidate is 45 years old and He is the nephew of the powerful mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero. If there was duel of ‘Knights’ in the past of Galician socialism it has already been overcome and in these elections in Galicia 2020 everyone has gone to one.

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