From Ourense to Barcelona and from Gijón to La Laguna, the risk of instability and ungovernability threatens fifteen of the main Spanish town halls, those of the provincial and autonomous capitals and those with more than 100,000 inhabitants, 80 in total, although in León it has not yet been possible to constitute the municipal corporation.
The risk lies generally in those where there were more problems in electing the mayor. The short term will be marked by the general elections, which should calm the waters, since local alliances have been established between the great ideological blocs, although the electoral spark could also jump.
Santiago is an exception, since the appointment of Goretti Sanmartín, the first female mayor of the BNG in the Galician capital, did not have any problem. But the PSdeG, which has not digested the tight defeat, was left out of the government, six councilors from the BNG and two from Sumar’s orbit, eight out of a total of 25.
In Ourense, the capital of the political grotesque, the PP will have to decide whether to go ahead with its complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office for six alleged crimes against the mayor Gonzalo Pérez Jácome. He has agreed in writing with him to give him the City Council, in exchange for the Provincial Council, which the PP believes is key for general and regional governments.
“Asturian Forum. Asturias, first. This is how the website of this party is presented, whose president and mayoress of Gijón, Carmen Moriyón, allied with Vox to, with the PP, overthrow the PSOE. Before the plenary session, a deputy secretary of the Forum resigned who described the pact as “infamous”. There were more protests. Two Forum councilors promised their position in Asturian, one of Vox’s targets along with equality.
In Elx, the speech of the Vox spokeswoman, Aurora Rodil, in the plenary session on Saturday announces the possible problems that those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo will face in those municipalities, such as Valladolid, Guadalajara, Burgos, Toledo or Alcalá de Henares, in those who decided to ally with the extreme right against a PSOE that was the most voted. Rodil made an anti-abortion intervention and in favor of the right to decide for families.
The distrust of Jaén Deserves More in his pact with the PP led him to sign it before a notary. The negotiations in Leganés were also complex, where the independents refused to support the PSOE and gave power to the Popular Party.
In La Laguna, the PSOE took over the mayoralty in a minority, after some conversations with Unidas Podemos and Alberto Rodríguez’s Drago that ended badly.
