Surprise in Casariche. A “failure” when registering the votes for the general elections issued last Sunday, July 23 in this Seville municipality, counted 278 votes for the Falange when they were Sumar ballots. The error has already become an anecdote in this point of the Sierra Sur in Seville and the neighbors begin to joke about the event, especially when the town is characterized by being traditionally left-wing.
Its mayor, José Ramón Parrado, from Izquierda Unida, has explained that the situation, advanced by the digital media eldiario.es and elconfidencial.com, was communicated to the Electoral Board the same night of the elections and that it is waiting for the rectification is issued.
Casariche, a municipality of 5,530 inhabitants, is a traditionally left-wing territory, along with others that make up Seville’s Sierra Sur, such as Marinaleda. The fact that a formation like the FE de JONS received almost three hundred ballots, becoming the fourth most voted force of the luegr, drew attention to such an extent that a failure was pointed out in the recount of the vote.
The 278 votes scored for this party correspond, as they point out, to the Sumar formation, headed by Yolanda Díaz, and which until now had a result of 1,105 supports (24.73%), ranking as the most voted party in the municipality, followed by the PSOE (29.89%) and the PP (13.23%).
“The neighbors are already telling me to wear a blue shirt with shoulder pads at the Fair,” Parrado ironized, alluding to the clothing worn by supporters of the Falange.
The province of Seville continues to be socialist territory, as has been verified after the electoral day of 23-J. It is at this point in the Andalusian geography where the advance of the popular ones has slowed down the most, who have won the last three elections in the community, becoming the most voted force in 7 of its 8 provinces.
The region, which contributes 61 seats to the Congress of Deputies, continues to be dyed blue and the force represented by Feijóo has obtained more than 1.5 million votes (36.4% of the voters’ support), which translates in 25 seats in the chamber, 10 more than those it obtained in 2019. However, the ‘pull’ that was expected after Juanma Moreno swept the regional elections and became the first popular president in the community with an absolute majority did not It has been what was expected. The Andalusian leader maintains that his party leader is “the preferred option” of the Spanish and who should go on to occupy Moncloa, ousting Pedro Sánchez and avoiding the ‘tetris’ that he would have to do to be able to be invested as president.
The PSOE, for its part, has stopped the expansive wave of the Galician in this land, managing to mobilize its electorate (in the fear that Vox would occupy a share of power in a pact with the PP) and adding more than 1.4 million votes (33.4%), a victory scored by the general secretary of Andalusian socialism Juan Espadas. Of course, they lose 4 seats in Madrid and will go on to occupy 21. Espadas, who suffered a hard blow in the previous regional elections, is happy with the results of his party in the south and points out that the involution has “stopped”. The second force with the most votes on 23-J has shown that the province of Seville continues to be its stronghold, just as it is closing the gap with the PP in all the Andalusian capitals, except in Jaén, where the popular ones have obtained greater support. The city of Cádiz is the only place where the fist and the rose have prevailed over the seagull.
Abascal’s ultra-right has not been able to achieve the results it wanted in this geographical point either, even having pivoted its political proposals to win followers on the problems of agriculture, water management and immigration. Vox continues to be the third most voted party in the community, but loses three deputies and 200,000 votes (it gets 15% of the ballots at the polls). The ultranationalists get 9 seats in the distribution of seats for Andalusia while Sumar, Yolanda Díaz’s party, takes 6 seats (11.95% of the votes) by becoming the fourth most supported force, the same as it contributed Can. Neither Adelante Andalucía, which premiered on the national stage this Sunday, nor Caminando Juntos, Macarena Olona’s formation, have managed to add enough ballots to make the leap to Madrid.
In one of the most polarized general elections in memory, and despite the exceptional nature of the date of the call where during the day the thermometer reached 40 degrees in different parts of the interior of Andalusia, participation increased up to 3 points more than in 2019, reaching 68.95%. Voting by mail was key: more than 345,000 people opted for this route to participate in the party of democracy.
