The countdown to Elections in Extremadurawhich will take place next Sunday December 21. In less than a month, citizens of the region will elect the new government that will lead the Council after … that its current president, Maria Guardiolawill call the elections early due to the impossibility of approving the regional budgets for the year 2026.
Among the main candidates who will represent the political parties of the region, there will once again be Maria Guardiolawho will run again as a Popular Party candidate this December 21. Miguel Angel Gallardocurrent secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura, takes the place occupied in 2023 by the late Guillermo Fernández Vara. Irene de Miguel (United for Extremadura – Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Alianza Verde) and Oscar Fernández (Vox) complete the list of presidential candidates in the new regional elections.
With less than a month to go before the electoral list, what seems clear is that once again, the vote of voters in the region will be crucial to forming the country’s new Executive. Junta of Extremadura. So far, the polls that have been published have a delete favoriteeven if he will remain far from the absolute majority necessary to govern alone, according to these polls.
It will be the winner of the Extremadura elections on 21-D according to the polls
If it is celebrated today, Maria Guardiolathe PP candidate, would once again win the victory in Extremadura elections. This is what emerges from the first barometer of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) for the regional elections, published last Friday, November 28, in which we note that the current President of the Council would be the most voted this December 21.
Like the rest of the surveys published so far, the organization places the Popular Party in a a range between 25 and 29 deputiesa result very similar to the 28 obtained in the 2023 elections. In terms of vote estimates, the CEI gives them 38.5% in this pre-election survey, the best percentage of all. However, if this result were to occur, the most popular ones would remain far from the desired absolute majority who seek to rule alone, found in the 33 places.
Guardiola and his team They would once again need the support of Vox govern. The party of Santiago Abascal, with Óscar Fernández as candidate, I would come out very strengthened polling stations on election day. According to José Félix Tezanos’ barometer, their voting intentions would go from 8% to more than 17% and their number of seats would increase considerably: it would go from the five obtained in 2023 to a shift in a varies between 10 and 12. Furthermore, everything indicates that it could play a fundamental role in the formation of the government if necessary.
The great fall will be suffered by PSOE of Miguel Angel Gallardothat all polls place well below the results obtained during the last elections. The CEI barometer gives the socialists of Extremadura a range between 19 and 22 seatswell below what Guillermo Fernández Vara achieved. If these predictions come true, it would lead his party to the worst result in its history, lose nine of the deputies which he obtained in 2023 and leaves with a 31.6% voting intentions.
For its part, the poor results of the Socialist Party would be good news for United by Extremadurathe coalition formed by Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Alianza Verde, led by the candidate Irene de Miguel. If in the 2023 regional elections they obtained four seats, the CEI now grants them some between six and seven deputies thanks to the fall of Gallardo and his people. Thus, Podemos-IU-AV would be done with a 9.6% of the votes in these elections.