The Diplomat
People’s Party won the regional elections in Galicia yesterday and will govern for another four years with an absolute majority. The conservative party won 40 seats, with the count at 99.90% and has only ceded two MPs compared to the previous elections (2020).
Alfonso Rueda, Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s successor as head of the Xunta de Galicia, will continue to preside over the regional government for the next four years, in the face of an opposition that has not managed to jeopardise its absolute majority.
The second most voted party, the Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) has obtained 25 MPs (six more than the 19 they achieved in 2020) and remains the second political force of the autonomous community ahead of the PSOE, which has lost 5 MPs compared to the 14 it had.
Democracia Ourensana will be the fourth political formation in the Galician Parliament. The party chaired by the mayor of Orense, Gonzalo Pérez Jácome, enters the regional chamber for the first time, but its only MP will not be relevant for governability, as was speculated during the campaign.
Expectations that the BNG candidate, Ana Pontón, could unseat the PP candidate for the presidency of the Xunta have also been left far behind.
Vox, Sumar and Podemos have been left out of the Galician legislative chamber. None of these parties has come close to the 5% threshold in any of the four Galician provinces.
Analysts agree that these results reinforce the leadership of the president of the Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Only the votes of Galicians living abroad have yet to be counted, but given the results already known, it is unlikely that they will be able to turn around the victory obtained by Alfonso Rueda. The PP has governed Galicia for 36 of the 42 years since autonomy was established.
