resounding triumph of the Popular Party in the regional elections in Madrid

An election Tuesday at Madrid that the recurring postcard was that of the ranks around the polling stations, as soon as the elections closed, at eight o’clock in the evening, the exit from the polls gave the Popular Party (PP) the winner of these elections for the presidency of the Community of Madrid for the next two years.

And they also showed the disappearance of the center, the citizens’ party, which would not obtain enough votes to enter the Madrid Assembly, the local Parliament.

Isabel Diaz Ayuso, PP candidate and current president standing for re-election, I would have doubled the deputies that he could sit in the Madrid Assembly: the PP had 30 seats and, according to a survey by the GAD3 consultancy firm, it could now have between 62 and 65.

If this data is confirmed, the triumph of the PP would not however reach to caress the absolute majority 69 of the 136 deputies who make up the Assembly.

Diaz Ayuso should see Vox as a possible ally in forming a government.

The far-right party would get 12 seats which, added to those of the PP, would exceed the necessary majority.

The sum of the left would not be enough to obtain the majority. Not even to reach the seats that only the PP would get.

The PSOE of candidate Angel Gabilondo would obtain 29 deputies and United we can, the party of the former vice-president Pablo Iglesias, which left the government to run in these regions, would only reach 12 years.

Plus Madrid, the force founded by Iglesias’ former partner Iñigo Errejón, when he left Podemos, and whose candidate is anesthesiologist Mónica García, would win 24 seats.

Coup d’état in the government of Pedro Sánchez

The dispersion of the left vote It is a heavy blow for the PSOE-Podemos government coalition led by Pedro Sánchez.

With a delay of between 20 and 40 minutes due to the security measures implied by the Covid protocol for voting, some 5.2 million residents of Madrid have had the right to elect the next regional president in 1,100 polling stations.

At seven o’clock in the afternoon, citizen participation in these elections, which are not compulsory, was 69%, 11 points higher than that recorded in 2019, the last time the people of Madrid went to the polls. .

These are the fourth regional elections that Spain is going through during a pandemic period – after Galicia, the Basque Country and Catalonia – and the first elections since the start of the vaccination campaign at the end of February.

More than 200,000 Madrid residents, however, preferred vote by post, a figure which represents 47% more residents than in the last regional elections.

An hour after the closing of the polling stations on Genoa Street in Madrid, headquarters of the PP, the area began to populate with supporters who, with reggaeton and blue (the color of the party) and Spanish flags, were a pure hubbub. .

Madrid, correspondent

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