The People’s Party wins, as expected, but does not reach the absolute majority, as desired. This is the title of the Extremadura elections, with 58 percent of the votes counted, on a night when the moral winner is not in Genoa, but in … Bamboo. Vox is the big surprise of the day, with twelve regional deputies and almost eighteen percent of the vote. A result that even the most optimistic pollsters had not predicted with those of Santiago Abascal.
The president of the Junta de Extremadura, María Guardiola, brought forward regional elections by two years due to legislative blockage, unable to approve budgets after Vox abandoned all the governments it shared with the PP in 2024, but her goal of obtaining an absolute majority was not achieved. Her candidacy obtained twenty-nine seats, two more than in 2023, but far from the 33 absolute majority which would have allowed her to govern alone without negotiating with third parties.
After a campaign marked, among other things, by the messages exchanged between Guardiola and Santiago Abascal, who took on the electoral race in person, completely eclipsing his candidate, Óscar Fernández, the current results would force us to lower the decibels and sit at the same table. The lack of agreement would force Extremadurians to vote again in a few months.
The PSOE, for its part, would confirm the disaster with the worst result in history in an autonomous community where it had never fallen below 39 percent of the votes and this Sunday it fell with a crash. Miguel Ángel Gallardo, prosecuted and awaiting trial for the alleged connection of the brother of the president of the government, David Sánchez, is the main accused along with Sánchez himself, who took over as socialist general secretary in the first elections since the corruption cases in his party began.
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