He Popular Party of Spain (PP, conservative), prevailed again and reaffirmed its hegemony in the region of Galicia, where he has governed since 2009 in the elections that took place this Sunday. This way, reinforces the figure of its national leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóowhich comes from some stumbles recently.
With 98% of the votes counted, the The main opposition force at the national level took 40 of the 75 seats in the Galician Parliament and thus ensured that he continued in power. This result confirms the success of the PP’s electoral strategy, which decided to bring forward the elections scheduled for the middle of the year, in order to achieve a victory in the region that party predominates to gain momentum in June’s European Parliament elections.
Previous meetings had not anticipated this scenario. Although they anticipated a victory for the PP, they pointed out that they would be far from repeating the resounding victory of 2020, where they had been left with 42 seats. These measurements warned of the possibility that the left will seize power from the president of that regionthe conservative Alfonso Ruedabut in the end this did not happen.
“President wheel”celebrated on the social network X the Galician Núñez Feijóoalong with a photo in which he is seen applauding with other party leaders at the central office in Madrid.
Núñez Feijóo celebrated the victory of the PP and avoided a new electoral setback
With this result, Núñez Feijóowho was the regional president for 13 years, and who became heavily involved in the recent campaignavoided a blow that would have been very hard.
The conservative leader had already received a hard setback last July when his party won the general elections but did not achieve the necessary support in the Spanish Parliament to govern. Pedro Sánchez, of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), won the votes and was re-elected as President of the Government, with the support of Catalan independence parties.
A defeat of the PP in Galicia, where it governed for 36 years since the first regional elections in 1981, would have had “clear and evident implications” on his leadershipJosé Pablo Ferrándiz, from the polling firm Ipsos, had warned public television station TVE this week.
Elections in Galicia: participation and interest of young people grew
As a sign of the interest that these elections aroused, the participation was 67.27%well above the 48.96% in 2020, according to official data cited by the AFP news agency.
Unlike other elections, in which the majority of young people abstained from voting, according to pre-election surveys by the Spanish Center for Sociological Studies, a 85% of the population under 30 years of age stated that they would go to the polls.
The large number of young voters who would participate in the elections expressed their opposition to the conservative PPfavorite of those over 65 years of age, according to surveys published in Spanish media.
Source: Ambito
