The Spaniards punished their traditional parties yesterday after nearly a decade of economic crisis. Although the ruling Popular Party (PP) edged two points socialist (PSOE) in the municipal elections held during the day, both communities do not achieve the general majorities in most of the constituencies, so it should enter now in a period of coalitions in 13 of the 17 regions of Spain who voted during the day, plus some 8,000 towns and cities. Thus, according to local press, the PP and the PSOE gave the key to their town halls and regional governments to new formations We can and Citizens six months before the general election.
With 99.46% of the ballots counted, the PP won 27.03% of the vote, losing 10 percentage points over the 37.5% stake, and the PSOE obtained a 25.03%, thus worsening the 27.7% that achieved in previous elections in 2011, according to the interior ministry. The turnout was 64.94%.
According to data released at a press conference by Vice President of the Spanish government, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, the PP obtained more than 22 747 councilors, while the Socialists were left with just over 20,820 .
But victory PP failed to reverse the crisis in the bipartisanship in Spain. The sum of votes of socialists and popular, that have ruled the country in the last 35 years was 52% compared to 65.2% of the local elections in 2011. The Spanish newspaper El Pais stressed that the PP and the PSOE They lost 13 percentage points and 3.3 million votes in the municipal elections. According to Reuters, the party of prime minister Mariano Rajoy on his way to record its worst result in local elections since 1991.
The loss of the absolute majority could make the PP stop scrutinizing large municipalities cities such as Madrid, Valencia and Seville, among other capitals, which could pass into the hands of the left pacts products. Specifically, Madrid could be governed by the candidate can, a dispute arising force movement of the “indignant”. If so, the PP would lose control of the city council for the first time since 1991.
In Barcelona the victory was for a formation called “Barcelona in Common”, whose origin is similar to the case of Madrid, although the existence of several parties represented in Barcelona’s City Hall would require an agreement of several forces.
“Madrid and Barcelona show how the new parties are very popular in large cities,” said Antonio Barroso, a political analyst Teneo Intelligence. “But the major parties will withstand the pull and are still the main players in the Spanish policy (…) They are the ones who will lead the covenants,” he said.
The domain of the PP in politics Spanish translated until now in control of most of the autonomous communities (regions). In 13 of the 17 communities were yesterday also elected members of regional assemblies. The results of the day announced, the newspaper El Mundo, the PP lost the absolute majority in all regions and only remain in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. So, you must have the support of some party, as citizens, if you want to continue governing, but joining forces as PSOE and we could give power to the left at various points.
“It’s a tough loss for the PP. The fear factor did not enter into play and people can and voted for Citizens, “said Jose Pablo Ferrandiz, the Metroscopia polling, adding that the results announced a new era of agreements for the Spanish policy.
Ferrandiz predicted that the same trend will be in the November general election. Pedro Sanchez, leader of the PSOE, said the results “are the beginning of the end of Rajoy as prime minister.”
“The big cities are the engines of change. Spain begins to be written in order of bipartisanship, “said political scientist Pablo Iglesias, leader of Podemos. “Citizens is now the third political force in Spain town. No project for Spain and this has only made to start, “said for his part the president of Citizens, Albert Rivera.
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