Everything remains the same. The political council of Extremadura remains the same as it was last Sunday: 29 deputies for the PP (one more than in 2023 and four from the absolute majority); 18 seats for the Socialists (ten less); Vox, with 11 (six more); and Podemos, seven, three more than in previous elections. Envelopes and ballots from abroad did not change a single seat in the Mérida Regional Assembly.
The vote abroad – which is part of the Extremaduras who reside permanently outside Spain and owes its name to the fact that they are registered in the Electoral Census of Absentee Residents (CERA) – was counted this Friday in Cáceres and Badajoz. Of the 860,375 Extremadura residents who were eligible to vote on December 21, 30,610 resided abroad, 1,800 more than in previous elections.
However, participation was low, as in recent years. In Badajoz, 913 votes were counted out of the 12,769 voters residing abroad. 312 were for the PSOE, 203 for the PP, 176 for Vox and 157 for Unidas por Extremadura.
In the case of Cáceres, where the difference was 244 votes between the PSOE and the PP and could bring down the 30th deputy on the popular side and subtract one from the Socialists (from eight to seven) to leave a result of 17 seats, this has not changed either. Everything remains the same. In fact, the Socialists were the most voted force with 317 votes; followed by the PP, with 279; Vox, with 170, and Unidas por Extremadura, with 143.
“The vote abroad generally does not vary much,” say PP sources, who exclude any movement within the board of directors, despite the rumors of recent days. “It never belongs to us,” they add.
The right won Extremadura with more than 60% of the votes on December 21, in a historically left-wing country which is no longer so. The socialists have remained further away from the PP (11) than Vox is from them (7).
And the PSOE, which has governed here 36 of the last 42 years, not only lost its status as the most voted force, which it had barely maintained in 2023 with Guillermo Fernández Vara – when it had already obtained its worst result until then – but suffered a dramatic collapse, with more than 14 points lost. And this led to the resignation of its candidate, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, last Monday.
All election results in Extremadura
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