There will be no change in Galicia. As the polls already indicated at the close of the polls, the PP has achieved its fifth consecutive absolute majority, more comfortably than expected and with a record participation of 67.3%. With 99.9% of the vote counted, Alfonso Rueda obtains 40 deputies in the Galician Parliament, two more than the 38 he needs to remain at the head of the Xunta for four more years. And there will already be five consecutive mandates for the PP with an absolute majority since Alberto Núñez Feijóo clearly won in 2009 after four years of the bipartite (PSdG-BNG) of Emilio Pérez Touriño (2005-2009).
Despite the excellent results of Ana Pontón’s Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), its 25 deputies, six more than it obtained in 2020, are not even remotely enough to add the 38 deputies needed with the PSOE of José Ramón Gómez Besteiro , which suffers a historic setback when it goes from the already reduced 14 deputies four years ago to just 9.
For its part, Democracia Ourensana, with Amancio Ojea, but under the leadership of Ourense mayor Gonzalo Pérez Jácome, surpasses the 5% barrier that guarantees it a seat in the Galician Chamber, which in any case will not serve to achieve majorities, taking into account of the absolute majority of the PP.
With these figures, the PP is two seats away from the results of four years ago and the then candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, now at the head of the party, consolidates his leadership, thanks to his pupil Alfonso Rueda, after a campaign that in his The last phase was very difficult for him with some polls that jeopardized his absolute majority. And coinciding with some controversies that could have cost the PP dear, such as the revelations about Feijóo’s predisposition to grant a conditional pardon to Carles Puigdemont or the absence of Rueda in the TVE debate with Pontón and Besteiro, with a notable audience.
In any case, these elections do not only represent a failure for Gómez Besteiro but also for the coalition government, whose forces together only obtain nine seats out of 75. Not only because of the failure of the PSdG, which could in part be attributed to the politics of President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, but above all by the second vice president, the Galician Yolanda Díaz, whose party, Sumar, led in Galicia by its former spokesperson in Congress Marta Lois, does not obtain representation. Díaz’s leadership in Sumar is affected.
The same thing happens to Podemos, which refused to attend the elections with Sumar and with Isabel Faraldo as the headliner, it has never had a real chance of entering Parliament and has even been surpassed by Pacma. In fact, the founder of the purple ones, Pablo Iglesias, at some point even asked for a vote for the BNG.
The same thing happens to Vox, with Álvaro Díaz-Mella at the helm, who will continue not to be present in the only regional parliament that resists him.