The three provincial capitals of Valencia will be governed by the PP. Just like the eight in Andalusia and most of the capitals of Castile and León. In Madrid, almost all relevant cities in the metropolitan area up to a total of 115 municipalities will also have a popular mayor from tomorrow, when the new governments emerging from the ballot boxes on May 28 will be formed. In that vote, the PP went on to become the main municipalist force partly on its own merits – it has a majority in almost three thousand municipalities throughout Spain – and partly thanks to agreements with other forces and especially with the extreme right
Andalusia
A complete Mayors in the eight provincial capitals
Málaga, Granada, Córdoba, Cádiz and Almeria will have PP mayors from tomorrow thanks to the absolute majority obtained on the 28th. In Seville, on the other hand, the PP did not achieve such a good result and was left with two councilors the absolute majority. However, at least for now, he does not plan to agree with Vox and in fact the future mayor has already formed his governing team that does not include the ultra-right, which obtained three councilors in the municipality. A different case is that of Huelva, where there is indeed an agreement with Vox. The PP obtained 13 councilors and has been forced to agree with the far-right party so that its candidate, Pilar Miranda, can get the baton of command today. Finally there is Jaén, where the key to the mandate is held by a candidacy linked to the empty Spain that yesterday already committed to support the Popular Party. The PSOE was the most voted force in this locality.
Castile and Leon
The PP-Vox combination adds
a Valladolid
After Burgos, Valladolid is also added to the list of municipalities where the pact of the PP and Vox will give the mayorship to the popular. In both cases the PSOE was the list with the most votes, but this has not prevented the conservative flank from imposing itself, which will designate Jesús Julio Carnero as the new mayor. The socialists, a priori, will keep Soria and Palencia; in the latter case, in accordance with a local training. In this community, the new corporation will not be established in León because the result has been contested.
Castilla-La Mancha
The PSOE is left without Toledo and Guadalajara, where it won
In Guadalajara, the combination of forces between the PP and Vox will also unseat the PSOE, the force with the most votes, from the mayor’s office. Alberto Rojo will give up his seat, despite having won eleven seats, and will be replaced by Ana Guarinos, who won nine. As for Vox, which was the third force in the city, its four votes are decisive. Something similar happens in Toledo, where the same combination of the two conservative formations will evict the socialist Milagros Tolón. In Ciudad Real, the aspiring mayor Francisco Cañizares of the PP has also incorporated Vox, although with 11 councilors he did not need this support numerically.
Valencia
The three provincial capitals in the hands of the PP alone
The formula of the agreement for the formation of the government of the Valencian Community with Vox has been extended to other municipalities where the ultra-right also presents itself in the formation of the new local executives. Even so, none of the three provincial capitals will require, at least for the appointment of mayors, the support of this party; although yes to be able to approve the main decisions of the local government throughout the mandate. Valencia, Castellón and Alicante will have mayors with a relative majority for the time being.
Asturias
Gijón in the air: Vox claims a part of the local government
The demand of Vox to enter the local government has left the Gijón mayor’s office up in the air all week, but in this case it is not a question of the PP’s resistance to sharing power with the far-right, as the Community of Murcia, but from the refusal of another formation, Forum Asturias, the former party of former minister Francisco Álvarez-Cascos. Carmen Moriyón, leader of Forum, aspires to regain the mayorship of the city. He has his 8 councilors and the 5 of the PP, with which he already signed a pact, but he lacks the 2 of Vox to reach an absolute majority, because otherwise the socialist Luis Manuel Flórez, the candidate with the most votes, will govern. Since Thursday, negotiations between both parties have intensified.
Galicia
Jácome can continue
to the mayor’s office
Gonzalo Pérez Jácome, although he has been involved in major scandals, such as being accused by some of his former councilors of appropriating party funds and imposing a kind of tax on advisers or having been taxed speaking of collecting bribes from companies, it was the most voted, with 10 councillors, by 7 from the PP, 6 from the PSOE and 4 from the BNG. To oust him, these three formations would have to unite, but for the Bloc, giving power to the PP means crossing a red line. In recent days, Jácome has already started negotiating with socialists and popular people, with the Provincial Government in which he holds the key and a new stage opens after 33 years of the Baltar dynasty. But the most unexpected can always happen in Ourense.
Basque Country
Global pact between the PSOE
to PNB
The global pact between the PNB and the PSOE to support each other in many of the main Basque town councils will today allow the re-election of the jeltzale Juan, who is still in his third term as mayor of Bilbao and will be able to comfortably manage municipal politics. On May 28, the Basque nationalists obtained 12 councilors out of a total of 29, while the Socialists, the third force after EH Bildu (6 councilors), obtained 5. Both formations have an absolute majority and have bet to re-edit the agreement they signed last legislature. The terms of the pact are similar, although the Socialists will manage one more area: Education. In this way, the Basque Nationalist Party will manage sixteen areas, while the Socialists will manage five. The Jeltzales lost two councilors in the Biscayan capital on 28- M, although they remain the hegemonic force that, in fact, governs the city since the recovery of municipal democratic institutions now 44 years ago.
