Spain, where the Government lost local elections, is going to early elections

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that the general elections, which under normal conditions should have been held in December, have been postponed to July 23 after the defeat in the municipal elections held on May 28 and the reinforcement of the right-wing opposition parties.

In statements to the press at Moncloa, the residence of the Prime Minister in Madrid, Sánchez announced that the Council of Ministers will meet urgently this afternoon and will decide to dissolve parliament and the country will call early general elections on July 23.

Stating that he accepted the results of the local elections and believed that it was necessary to advance the elections, Sánchez said: “I accept the results and I believe that it is necessary to give an answer to this. “The best thing is that the Spanish take the floor to determine the political course of the country,” he said.

The right-wing parties, currently in opposition, emerged stronger from the local elections in Spain, in which 35.1 million voters were registered and members of 12 autonomous parliaments and 8,131 municipal councils were determined.

RIGHT FRONT OF LOCAL ELECTIONS

As for the distribution of votes across the country at the end of the elections, the main opposition Popular Party (PP) received 31.5 percent, the Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), the main government partner leftist coalition, 28.11 percent. , and the far-right opposition party Vox, 7.18 percent.

In the last local elections of 2019, these rates were PSOE 29.26 percent, PP 22.23 percent and Vox 2.9 percent.

The PP won 6 of the 10 regional administrations held by the PSOE in these local elections. The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, arguing that his party came out with a clear victory in the municipal elections, commented that “the first step has been taken in a new political cycle that we will start in Spain in the next period.”

Santiago Abascal, the leader of the far-right Vox party, Spain’s third-largest political power, which increased voting at a higher rate, argued that “Vox is now reinforcing that it is an absolutely necessary alternative to building an alternative to socialism.” communism and its separatist and terrorist associates”.

After the last general elections held in Spain at the end of 2019, in January 2020 the first coalition government in the country’s democratic history was formed between the PSOE and the ultra-leftist United We Can. (AA)