This Sunday, February 18, all eyes were on the autonomous elections of Galicia. The candidates faced elections full of unknowns. Would the PP continue to reign with its absolute majority? Would the seats of the left-wing bloc serve to end the hegemony of the popular ones? The Galicians went to the polls and they handed down a sentence.
The Popular candidate for the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda (i), together with the general secretary of the party in Galicia, Paula Prado, greets after winning the Galician elections this Sunday
After counting 100% of the votes, the PP of Alfonso Rueda once again emerged as the winner in the elections of 18Fagain achieving the absolute majority with 40 seats. Although there will be no change in the Xunta, there are also reasons for joy in the BNGlead by Ana Pontonwhich achieved a great result at the polls: 25 seats total. The same happens with Ourensana Democracy (DO)who broke into the Galician Parliament scratching a seat.
The setback was for him PSdeG (PSOE)which fell to 9 seats -he had 14 in the last elections-, but he was not the great victim of these Galician elections. The worst results were for summerwho did not get representation in Parliament, and to We canwhich has gone from gathering more than 50,000 votes in the last elections to being surpassed by PACMA at the polls this 2024.
After the results came the conclusions, some of them quite forceful. This is the case, for example, of the reflection that Pablo Iglesias, former leader of We can, has done in the editorial of ‘Diario Red’. The former vice president of the Government described the result of the BNG as a triumph that “consolidates it as the left option for regional elections in a territory in which dual voting always operates”.
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Iglesias, however, was not so kind to the result of summer and took the opportunity to ‘stir up’ Yolanda Diaz. “Despite being the land of the vice president herselfdespite having mobilized all known Sumar profiles in the campaign […] Those of Díaz have not only failed to expand their electoral base but have reduced it by half compared to what Galicia en Común had in 2020. Yes summer already lost seven seats in Congress, […] In these Galician elections his downward trend and it shows that we are facing a political project that does not work“, says Iglesias in the editorial.
Sumar’s candidate for the presidency of the Xunta, Marta Lois (d), with the party leader, Yolanda Díaz (i)
About We canHowever, Pablo Iglesias considers that “The morale of militancy in Galicia has not been as affected as one might expect thanks to the effort made. The former leader of the purple formation blames Podemos’s result, pointing out that voters have not opted for Podemos “given the perspective that the exercise of a dual vote could bring the prospect of a change in the Xunta closer.”