With the volatilization of Ciudadanos, the PP could only improve in these Catalan elections, to which it came from very low, the three deputies obtained in 2021 by Alejandro Fernández, who today has taken revenge for that result, the worst in the history of the conservative party in Catalonia.
The 15 seats won by the PP candidate in his second attempt allow Genoa to not only breathe easy but also to be euphoric after having considered renewing the head of the list, who has also achieved the long-awaited overthrow of Vox, which the popular Catalans have advanced despite the fact that the extreme right has not given up deputies and retains the eleven it obtained in 2021.
Furthermore, the PP is proud of having become the fourth force in the Parliament. An upward trend that consolidates the result of last year’s general elections, in which Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party obtained almost half a million votes and was ahead in number of votes, although not in seats, of ERC and Junts , pro-independence formations that in these autonomous communities have once again overtaken the popular ones.
But the 11% obtained, as happened just a month ago in the Basque Country, where the popular party remained below 10%, is not enough to clear the way for Moncloa. Without substantially improving in these two territories, the most refractory to the political program of Spanish conservatism, Feijóo could once again crash into the lack of parliamentary support if, with the contribution of the far right, as happened last July, he does not reach an absolute majority. .
At the PP headquarters in Genoa, in any case, they celebrate the results in style: “We are the party that is growing the most,” exclaimed the general secretary, Cuca Gamarra, at the stroke of midnight. The minimum objective was to triple its results, the equivalent of the nine seats provided by the absorption of Ciudadanos, and, from there, everything was going to be a success. But the fifteen are five times those of 2021, so the leader has already been able to speak of a “turning point” and “a new stage.”
Thus, the 15 deputies achieved are a magnificent result for the PP, which is pleased to be the party that “rises the most of all” and to have representation in the four provinces. In a preliminary analysis, sources in Genoa attribute these votes to PSC voters who have distanced themselves from the socialists when they saw how they were getting closer to ERC.
In this sense, they explain the rise of the Catalan socialists by the collapse of the Republicans in an operation of communicating vessels. And they point out that if Vox does not drop significantly it is because the “constitutionalist” vote, in which they include the extreme right despite the fact that it challenges the Spain of the autonomies enshrined in the Magna Carta, resists as an identity vote of citizens who feel Spanish. .
Regarding governability, Gamarra leaves it for “later”, after analyzing the results in time. But, be that as it may, in Genoa they point out that “stability has not improved in Catalonia or in Spain tonight” and they accuse the PSC of having “evolved” so that its speech is more similar to that of ERC, a “very big ideological toll.” ” to get that vote, they say.
“Pedro Sánchez’s future depends today more than yesterday on the independence movement,” said Gamarra, who sees the PSC “assimilated” to the independence movement and predicts that Carles Puigdemont’s men “will put a price” on Salvador Illa, who has not achieved a “ autonomous voice” and will not be able to be president unless he gives in to new claims from ERC and Junts that sources in Genoa already indicate could include the holding of an agreed referendum on the independence of Catalonia.
