2023-07-24 00:08:37
Spain voted in the most polarized elections in recent years and although the Popular Party was the force with the most votes, the PSOE could reissue a left-wing coalition government.
Because the PP won the elections with 33.04 percent of the votes, but they don’t give it the accounts to reach the necessary majority to form a government. Not even adding the votes harvested by the extreme right of Vox, which came third with 12.39 percent of the votes.
The current president and PSOE candidate for re-election, Pedro Sánchez, came second: 31.70 percent of the electorate voted for him, but he has more chances of agreeing to join other parties.
His main ally will be Sumar, the coalition of more than 15 leftist forces led by Yolanda Díaz, who came in fourth position on the heels of Vox. Got 12.31 percent of the polls.
Alberto Núñez Feijoo, leader of the PP. Bloomberg photo
Is blocking possible?
The result between the PP and the PSOE, however, was so even that a blockade is not ruled out, if neither of the two candidates achieves enough support to be sworn in as president.
Spain is governed by a parliamentary system made up of 350 deputies who vote for the candidate to preside over the government and, due to the results of this July 23, governability is not guaranteed.
With 99 percent of the votes counted, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader and candidate of the PP, did not hesitate to demand what he had been proposing throughout the electoral campaign: a State pact so that the most voted list governs.
The PP obtained 8,043,022 votes which translates into 136 seats out of the 350 that make up Parliament.
“As the candidate with the most support in the general elections, with all humility but also with all determination, I am in charge of initiating the dialogue to form a government with the majority will of the Spanish people,” said Núñez Feijóo as soon as he appeared on the balcony of his party’s headquarters, on Génova street in Madrid.
“Oa, oa, oa, Feijóo a la Moncloa”, the PP voters encouraged him.
The President of the Government and Socialist candidate for re-election, Pedro Sánchez votes accompanied by his wife Begoña Gómez. Photo EFE
“I ask that no one be tempted to block Spain again,” he warned. I think it is a legitimate, democratic and essential request.” Sánchez goes for re-election It was almost midnight when Pedro Sánchez went out onto the makeshift balcony on a scaffold that was set up at the door of the PSOE headquarters, on Calle Ferraz in Madrid.
“I called early elections because I believed that we had, as a society, what to decide which course to take.
Either a course of progress for the next four years or a course of regression as proposed by the involutionary bloc of the Popular Party with Vox,” said the PSOE leader, who is betting on his re-election.
On Ferraz street, closed to traffic due to the celebrations of the PSOE affiliates, Raffaella Carrá sounded singing “Pedro, Pedro, Pedro, Pedro, Pe…”.
“I think that Spain has been very clear. The regressionist block of retreat that proposed a total repeal of all the progress we have made has failed”, added the PSOE general secretary. He added 7,682,277 votes that represent 122 deputies in Congress.
Sánchez is betting on reissuing a coalition that he supposes is more bearable than his political marriage with Unidas Podemos was.
But to reach the 176 seats that would guarantee his inauguration as president, he will have to thread his votes, those of Sumar, to reconvene the pro-independence parties -Catalan and Basque- and the regionalists.
Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya warned him this Sunday: “The independence movement can tip the balance”said ERC candidate Gabriel Rufián.
Vox leader Santiago Abascal exercises his right to vote at the Cristo Rey school in Madrid. Photo EFE
It will be necessary to see what he asks for in exchange for giving his support to a possible investiture of Sánchez. “We make ourselves available, which is to set a price,” said Rufián. That it will have to be high and consensual. Put on the table the supposed Spanish progressivism, Catalonia or Vox. If they want to rule their country they will have to respect ours.” Vox remains third Vox maintained third place among the most voted but fell back in parliamentary representation. Of the 52 deputies that he obtained in the last general elections, this time he will only have 33.
“Mr. Feijóo has won the elections as he wanted and, furthermore, he has done so not depending on Vox, as he also wanted,” ironized the party’s candidate, Santiago Abascal. “We imagine that he will maintain the offer to the Socialist Party to allow him to govern. That offer that he has made throughout the campaign, ”he stressed.
“Pedro Sánchez, even losing the elections, can block an investiture. And even worse: he could be invested with the support of communism, coup separatism and terrorism, now with much more capacity for blackmail than in the previous Legislature ”, the leader of the Spanish extreme right dispatched.
The leader of the Sumar coalition, Yolanda Díaz. Photo EFE
Resist
“We are going to resist,” he assured. We are prepared both to be in the opposition and for an electoral repetition.” The lackluster debut of Sumar Yolanda Díaz, the only woman among the candidates for president, celebrated her result -31 deputies-, although more was expected from her electoral debut. United We Can, one of the parties that make up the Sumar coalition, had won 35 seats in the general elections four years ago.
“I think people are going to sleep more peacefully today Diaz said. Democracy today has won and comes out stronger. We have won. Today we have a better country.” Of the almost 37.5 million Spaniards who could vote this Sunday, 35 million reside in the country, according to data from the INE Electoral Census Office.
Voters who live outside of Spain there are 2.3 million, most of whom chose Argentina as their home. From there, almost half a million Spaniards were enabled to participate in the elections.
A piece of information that could have altered the electoral result this Sunday: the suspension of high-speed trains between Madrid and Valencia due to a malfunction in a tunnel.
The incident affected 11,000 passengers. Renfe, the public railway company, managed to relocate to about 2,000 on other trains. How many votes will have been lost, however, among the people who never made it to their polling station on time?
Madrid. Correspondent
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