The PP has won the elections in Castilla y León this Sunday but will have to count on an unstoppable Vox to govern. The PSOE of Pedro Sánchez hits a bump by ceasing to be the leading political force in the region and losing seven seats. Ciudadanos only achieves one representative and Soria Ya, the other great winner, enters Parliament with three attorneys.
Some results that for the popular are a triumph if one takes into account that two attorneys win compared to 2019 and will be able to maintain, after 35 years, one of its main fiefdoms. But a “bitter victory” if one takes into account that the expectations of the Castilian and Leonese president was to achieve a sufficient victory to govern alone.
At the national level, the results in Castilla y León have a double reading. The formation of Pablo Casado fails to advance forcefully but they reflect a clear defeat for the Socialist Party of Pedro Sánchez, which is sinking.
Vox will be the government key for Fernández Mañueco, who ended the coalition he had with Ciudadanos. Santiago Abascal already announced after knowing the results that he will enter the regional government in exchange for investing Mañueco as president of the Board. “What a vice-president face is being given to Juan García Gallardo,” said the national leader of Vox.
The failure of Pedro Sánchez and his government coalition is not only reflected in the loss of 7 seats, but has also made the center-right represented by PP and VOX hegemonic.
Crisis in the PSOE
The bad results of the PSOE will also open an important crisis between the Castilian and Leonese socialists. Luis Tudanca not only has not been able to maintain the clear advantage that he had over the PP, but he has regressed resoundingly and is definitely moving away as a future option to end the hegemony of the popular.
The socialist candidate has hinted at a possible departure of the party’s leadership. “Another will come that will make the change,” he said excitedly at the results assessment appearance.
A campaign in decline for the PP
The PP candidate, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has not been able to overcome the ‘pájara’ he suffered in the middle of the campaign when the CIS polls began to talk about the possibility of an insufficient majority to form an alliance with VOX and they left the door open to a coalition government of the left with the localist parties.
It was then that the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, began to give more prominence in the campaign, despite the Genoa guidelines, which had posed the elections as a kind of first round between Pablo Casado and Pedro Sánchez, for which the president National PP has had an important presence in the Community.
It also contributed to this that both PSOE and Ciudadanos have focused a good part of their campaign on accusing Mañueco of an electoral advance that was only justified in the interest of Pablo Casado to inflict a double defeat: on the one hand Pedro Sánchez and, on the other, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Solo Elections
Another of the factors that played against Mañueco was that for the first time the elections did not coincide with the municipal ones, which would reduce the pull of participation that the mayors, mainly from the PP, have in the electorate of the towns.
In favor of this demobilization, the rain forecasts and the fear that the Covid pandemic still generates among the older population in the territory also contributed.
less participation
Participation has been one of the keys to these results. The influx of the polls has been 63.5%, two points less than the 65.79% registered in 2019. Rural areas have been more reluctant to vote, while it has remained in urban areas.
In any case, to facilitate participation, the Junta de Castilla y León enabled buses so that people who did not have polling stations in their minor local entities, since they were not municipal elections, could go to their reference municipality to exercise their right to vote. For their part, people with a visual disability of 33% have been able to request an accessible kit for the right to vote, which applicants have also been able to receive at their homes.
Breakdown by provinces
It should be remembered that in these elections the 81 seats of the Cortes of Castilla y León are elected, so the absolute majority is set at 41. Valladolid elects 15 attorneys, León 13, Burgos 11, Salamanca 10, Ávila, Palencia and Zamora 7 , Segovia 6 and Soria 5.
The PP and the PSOE share four of the 9 provinces each, while Soria Ya won widely in the province of the same name. The popular ones win in Zamora, Segovia, Salamanca and Ávila while the socialists win in Burgos, León, Palencia and Valladolid.
However, there are ties for the number of seats between the two parties with the most votes in León (PP and PSOE, 4), Palencia (PSOE and PP, 3), Valladolid (PSOE and PP, 5) and Zamora (PP and PSOE, 3).
Soria Ya stands out in the province, obtaining a similar number of votes to those of the PP and PSOE together, with more than 42% of the votes in the constituency.
few incidents
The day took place without major incidents, with the vast majority of schools opening at 09:00 as scheduled. The most notable event was the disappearance of an electoral census at a table in Salamanca and the opening of a police file on a table member in Ávila who refused to wear a mask and who had to be replaced.
In addition, the candidacy of España Vaciada denounced the lack of ballots in electoral colleges in Palencia, Salamanca and Burgos.
On the other hand, Vox and the PSOE have filed complaints before the regional Electoral Board against the Popular Party for messages on social networks that they consider to be a “crystalline violation” of the law during voting day for incurring a ” vote request through an electoral campaign with the hashtag #YoVotoPP”.
Facebook Comments
Disqus