The Popular Party has clearly won the regional elections in Galicia and has already managed to retain its absolute majority, the fifth consecutive since 2009, despite losing two deputies.

In the final count, the candidacy of the current president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, has obtained 72,000 more votes compared to 2020 when the last elections were held in this community.

Then he managed to surpass 47 percent of the votes, now, with a participation 20 percent higher than that of four years ago, he has almost repeated the same figure to a millimeter.

Alfonso Rueda appeared tonight and thanked the trust placed in him “to have the immense honor of being the president of Galicia.” Rueda, who made his speech exclusively in Galician, said that Galicia has sent a clear message: “Today, Galicia, which everyone was paying attention to, sent a message to Spain, here we do not want blackmail, neither doing it nor being subjected”.

Rueda, has expressed his gratitude to all the militants who have collaborated in his victory but has made a special mention of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has been thoroughly involved in this campaign and who clearly won the election in these elections. pulse on the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whose party in Galicia literally crashes after losing five deputies and 46,000 votes, despite the increase in participation.

Feijóo, after the controversy surrounding the amnesty and the PP’s conversations with Junts, came out of these elections shaken. But the severity of the defeat of the Socialist Party of Galicia will allow it to turn the page on this incident during the campaign.

The socialists always held the theory that if Galicians were going to vote en masse, political change would be possible. It is clear that the calculation was wrong.

José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, who like Alfonso Rueda was running for the first time in these elections, has acknowledged the severe defeat and has announced that his purpose is to work to “consolidate the project.” He will not leave despite the fact that his candidacy has obtained the worst result in number of deputies from the socialist party in Galicia.

In the absence of analyzing in detail the results of Galician socialism, it seems evident that one of the factors that have been decisive has been the electoral push of nationalism represented by the Bloc.

The party led by Ana Pontón has taken the great leap that the polls already predicted and has obtained six more deputies in the Galician Parliament to bring its representation to 25 representatives.

The BNG’s harvest is exceptional, it exceeds by 155,000 votes what it obtained in 2020. Its results are explained by what it has stolen from the rest of the left-wing forces but also by the vote it has mobilized from abstention.

Pontón has attended these elections with a speech focused exclusively on Galicia and far from nationalist rhetoric. A transversal message that has been able to capture votes in all layers of the Galician electorate. That has been one of the keys to his success at the head of a party that he has led for more than eight years. The leader of the BNG regretted tonight that the sum of the left did not manage to double the absolute majority of the Popular Party.

If any reading of the results is clear, it is that the weak flank of the coalition of change has been the Party of Socialists of Galicia, but also the rest of the left-wing parties that have not obtained representation either and have wasted a handful of votes for nothing. . In the chapter of electoral deaths, the Sumar project, by the Galician Yolanda Díaz, has not even managed to exceed 1.9 percent of the votes. A slap shared with Podemos that has obtained an even worse result. To understand the magnitude of the failure of both forces, it is enough to say that Vox, which has also not obtained representation despite the fact that in recent days it had increased its expectations in A Coruña, has surpassed the sum in votes of both parties.

The fourth passenger in this legislature will be Democracia Ourensana, the local party from the province of Ourense that has managed to enter Parliament with eight percent of the votes, three points above the barrier set by the Galician electoral law to obtain representation .