Four out of ten Castilian-Leonese stayed at home on Sunday. Abstention exceeded 35% and participation was seven points below that registered two years ago: it was slightly more than 63%. The percentage of those who did not vote corresponds almost to the one who, in pre-election polls, said they did not believe in the invention. With these wickers, the basket of autonomic consciousness remains as usual, unbalanced and dancing. The gap is in danger of widening with a parliament more divided than ever. The detachment from the majority parties has resulted in the push of the Leonese nationalists and the authentic representatives of the Emptied Spain, Soria Ya, which takes three seats out of five in contention in his province to compensate for more than twenty years of movement on the fringes of the political scene. The unmitigated defeat is carried by the left. The PSOE of Tudanca It is far below the honey that the Tezanos surveys promised them. The sum of Podemos and IU barely gives them enough to win a seat and with fewer votes than in May 2019 despite both forces coming together.
Vox stands as a catalyst for discontent, opening niches in rural areas. The defense of hunting and ranchers, of the bullfighting world, make it gain space in towns where the PP previously dominated, above all.. It is true that there is still “fidelity & rdquor; of the smallest constituencies and that explains why the accounts started the night for the popular bordering on 40 parliamentarians. But as votes were counted at larger polling stations, the balance tipped in the direction of Abascal’s party. Vox has not had the need to campaign. He had the voters already decided and not even his candidate Juan García Gallardo has had to resort to great promises or flaunt eloquence in his almost non-existent appearances. It was enough for them to walk their national stars, including Ortega Smith who yesterday covered all the kilometers of the nine provinces to accompany each one of the heads of the list before the polls.
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The PP candidate will now have to deal with Vox, Fernandez Manuecowith a pyrrhic victory, far below expectations created in December despite having increased two seats, up to 31. There are ten left for the absolute majority and not even the sum of the rest, excluding PSOE and United We Can, is enough to reach it. Mañueco has tried to avoid red lines. And Vox already warned in the campaign and last night, when Abascal said he saw Juan García Gallardo “face of vice president & rdquor ;. Whether that means entering the Government will be something to elucidate in the coming days. Mañueco does not have the margin that Ayuso had, but Vox will have to decide whether to enter a possible coalition just a year before a general election. Their electorate will want to see the fang they show off. It remains to be seen if the PP is willing to accept all the demands that its new and hypothetical partner has sworn to obtain. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Ciudadanos has gone from the matrimonial bed to the folding guest bed with only the Igea seat. And the popular ones look fearfully between the sheets while they wait for a proposal they can’t refuse.