The opposition wins again the premises in Galicia and the BNG takes Santiago

With or without Alberto Núñez Feijoo, the Galician PP is no longer good at municipal elections, with much lower results than those of Era Fraga, when, however, it had an absolute autonomous majority only slightly higher than the current. Yesterday the alliance of PSOE and BNG, without counting the increasingly decadent old tides, clearly prevailed over a PP that aspired to three mayoralties and won one, Ferrol. Even so, it rose 5 points in Galicia over 2019, when it had the worst result in 32 years, widened the distance with the PSOE and above all reconquered the Diputación de Pontevedra, in the hands of the PSOE and the BNG since 2015.

Once again, the disaster of the Ministry of the Interior in the dissemination of local results included the absence of information on the councils, of great relevance, especially in Lugo and Ourense. According to the information that the parties handled last night, the PSOE and BNG alliance did retain the one in A Coruña and the one in Lugo, although by a slight difference, with a very complicated scrutiny in the provincial capital. And in Ourense the PP is supposed to be the first force, but in a minority in the hands of Democracia Orensana, the party of the mayor of the capital.

The seizure of the mayoralty of Santiago by the nationalist Goretti Sanmartín, tied with the PSOE, but with more votes, and the scandalous victory of the outlandish localist Gonzalo Pérez Jácome in Ourense constitute the two great surprises of the night. Jácome, who came third in 2019 and had the mayoralty by giving the deputation to the PP, yesterday was the most voted, with three more mayors, up to 10. His success occurs just when several recordings have been revealed in which he talks about charging of contract bites. PP (7 councilors), PSOE (6) and BNG (4) have a whole ballot in a chaotic scenario.

The socialist Abel Caballero fell 7 points and lost a mayor in Vigo. It would be a failure, were it not for the fact that it still exceeded, even by a few tenths, the bar of 60% in a city of 300,000 inhabitants, with 19 councilors out of 27, a result typical of a mountain town. In A Coruña, the socialist Inés Rey was consolidated and her partner Lara Méndez holds on in Ferrol, as well as the nationalist Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores in Pontevedra, after 24 years. The PP took over the mayoralty of Ferrol, which has changed every time since 1987.