achieved three of its four objectives but far from the absolute majority

Despite an increase of more than four points, the PP he only advances one seat, from 28 to 29and it remains three short of the absolute majority who had come to believe that they were playing with their fingertips.

Guardiola thus fulfills three of his four electoral objectives: he exceeds the 40% barrier of voting, has more seats than the entire left combined And reduces dependence of Vox to govern.

But does not cross the barrier of 30 deputies which he saw as the key to consolidating a “total” victory. Despite this, Guardiola’s inauguration will be virtually assured.

The president of the PP can be elected with the simple abstention of Vox in the second round, since she adds “more votes and more seats than the entire left combined”, he underlined. Miguel Telladoafter midnight, from Genoa.

Shortly before, the PP candidate had been applauded at her electoral headquarters, while ensuring that her victory was “indisputable”. Guardiola called on Vox to “Think and don’t block Extremadura anymore”because the Extremadurians “decided that we would continue to rule the region”.

This nuance is key, as one ruin tried to emphasize at night Miguel Angel Gallardoto think about how bittersweet his victory. He anticipated the dissolution for the first time in the history of the Autonomous Community in search of more stability.

And certainly the Parliament of Extremadura will be eminently right-wing (60% of the votes and 40 of the 65 seats), and it has increased by more than four points, but the one that has increased the most is Vox: doubles the results with 40,000 additional votesin an election with seven fewer participation points (62.74%) than in 2023.

244 votes away from seat 30

But at the end of this edition, sources from the Mérida data center confirmed to this newspaper that this “desired” seat number 30 for the PP, it only had 244 votes left.

The vote for the Absentee Electoral Census (CERA) in the province of Cáceres, whose counting continues this Monday, could bring additional joy to the popular people. “It’s a census in which the PP usually wins”explained the official sources consulted.

With three results out of four (and the last, perhaps within reach), the PP proclaimed that the “main” objective of its strategy had been achieved.

Sources from the formation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo welcomed “historically sink the PSOE of Pedro Sánchez”. They believe that this objective is “more than exceeded”.

The PSOE reaped its worst historical result in the region. He lost this 21-D by more than 14 points and fell to 18 seats… and This is the party that the deputy from Cáceres would losein case the CERA vote behaves in the usual way.

“All the parties stand up except one: that of Pedro Sánchez,” they explained from the leadership of the PP. “East the biggest setback in the history of democracy of a party which has also just won the legislative elections”.

A significant fact is that in Badajoz, the most populated city in Extremadura, the PSOE is today the third force. The PP is in the lead, Vox overtakes the socialists.

“It’s a hard blow for history”Tellado enjoyed his Genoa appearance. “The PSOE is today a party in the chassis, closer to third position than first“.

The historical context amplifies the magnitude of the result. The PSOE won 10 of 11 autonomous elections held in Extremadura since 1983 and in seven of them he obtained an absolute majority.

The region was next to Andalusia, the stronghold par excellence of the PSOE in Spain. This empire is collapsing, and “this is an exclusive merit of Pedro Sánchez,” PP sources explained. “Guardiola rises by more than four points and has an almost identical percentage of votes to what he currently has Juanma Moreno“.

In Genoa, they tried to get rid of the comments tending to emphasize that the victory was incomplete without reaching 30 deputies, by pouring vinegar on the wound of the sanchism. “The defeat is not Gallardo’scomes from the President of the Government, who should have appeared the same evening to recognize his failure in the first person.”

It is for this reason that the PP leadership has worked hard to flood the media with joyful images. Among them, some of Alberto Nuñez Feijóo chat with Guardiola after 10 p.m. by videoconference to congratulate her.

Jorge Azcón, president of the PP of Aragon, accompanied Feijóo to the national headquarters. “After beating them today, we are already working to beat them again on February 8,” he said. Jorge Azconnext to him, referring to the Aragonese elections.

The message from Feijóo’s entourage was resounding, perhaps more than the triumph of 21-D: “Extremadura is only the first in a series of great sundays that await Sánchez” in the coming months. “Policies based on build walls among the Spanish are being demolished to the polls.”