The Popular Party celebrates with real enthusiasm the results obtained in Galicia. First of all, because of his resoluteness, because he has obtained another absolute majority, the fifth despite having changed his candidate just two years ago.
Secondly, because in the electoral battle that ended on Sunday night, he believes he has found the way to defeat the Government of Pedro Sánchez. “This is the recipe – emphasized Alberto Núñez Feijóo in his intervention at the meeting of the Galician PP management committee held in a hotel in Santiago – you concentrate the vote on the PP, we will slow down independence and send to irrelevance more absolute Sanchism. This is Galicia’s message for everyone.”
And, in view of the results, at least in Galicia, the formula proposed by Feijóo works. It is not for nothing that the Socialist Party has become an almost irrelevant political force in this community, with only nine deputies out of a total of 75 that make up the Parliament, and secondly, because with a mobilization worthy of an organization well-oiled politics, they have managed to stop the Galician nationalists, the emerging force in this dispute.
For Alberto Núñez Feijóo, a victory has been achieved in Galicia “against everything and everyone. We have won the irresponsibility of the PSOE, which entrusted itself to Galician nationalism to defeat us. We have won those who wanted this meeting to be a leadership plebiscite and they have lost it. The Spanish Government wanted to make these elections a problem for the PP, and now they are the ones with a problem,” he said.
In these campaign chronicles we wrote that Sánchez had very little to lose and a lot to gain, since the Socialists were already the third political force in Galicia since 2020. In theory it could not get worse, but it has. The Socialist Party of – which tomorrow Wednesday will hold an executive with an uncertain outcome – obtained a catastrophic result: nine deputies, five less than what it obtained four years ago. Only one survey gave him this result, which, in the middle of the campaign, seemed like an eccentricity. But the fact is that this was the end. The PSOE and Sánchez have lost a lot and won nothing.
On the contrary, Feijóo, who today will meet the steering committee in Carrer Génova to assess the results from a state perspective, could have been the great victim of these elections. Even retaining the absolute majority, the mess on the occasion of the amnesty in the middle of the campaign placed him in a very delicate moment. That extemporaneous leak – so far without a recognized author – had managed to annoy even the team of his successor, Alfonso Rueda. But the heavy defeat of the socialists in Galicia frees him from guilt. It’s all congratulations, as was demonstrated at this event yesterday in Santiago, surrounded by cadres of the party, all happy and smiling.
The fact is that it was Alfonso Rueda’s PP campaign team that had the ability to react in view of this adverse scenario. “They turned the regional elections into municipal elections. They called all the neighbors door to door to go and vote” explains the campaign manager of one of the opposition parties, who saw how the PP, weak and disoriented at the beginning of the last week of the campaign, was making a comeback the last days At the cry that nothing will change the island’s stability, the PP of Galicia has done Feijóo an immense favor and created a huge problem for Sánchez.
The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, was full of praise for his electoral team and for all the territorial leaders who achieved the great mobilization that has stopped the wave of change that seemed to be advancing in Galicia. “We managed to stop Pedro Sánchez and his nationalist partners in their tracks”, celebrated Rueda.
Yesterday Feijóo ended his intervention by investing the president of the Xunta as another baron of the party and encouraged him to prepare for the Basque and European elections.
