Logroño, May 28 (EFE).- The socialist candidate for re-election to the Presidency of the Government of La Rioja, Concha Andreu, has assumed this Sunday the defeat of the PSOE in the elections and has congratulated the PP on its “resounding” victory with absolute majority in the regional Parliament and in the Logroño City Council.
Andreu, acting president of the regional government, has appeared at the PSOE headquarters in La Rioja to analyze the electoral results, accompanied by the Socialist candidate for mayor of Logroño, Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, also acting mayor.
In his speech, Andreu, general secretary of the La Rioja socialists, advanced that the Regional Executive Commission of the PSOE will be convened shortly to “analyze the results and adopt the decisions that must be taken at the time” and he believes that, perhaps, the citizenship has voted nationally.
He has indicated that he has already contacted the popular candidate to preside over the regional government, Gonzalo Capellán, whom he has congratulated and made himself available to collaborate on “so many projects started” during this legislature.
For his part, Hermoso de Mendoza has said that now it is up to the PSOE to “make a serious, rigorous and demanding opposition, which allows Logroño to continue advancing and not back down on issues that have been achieved” this mandate.
“The 40 years of progress in this country have come hand in hand with the PSOE and the PP, with fundamental pacts, because we believe in the social and democratic state of law,” he stressed; and “for Logroño it is much better that there is an absolute majority of PP, without having to depend on Vox.”
The Socialists have lost the Presidency of the Government of La Rioja after the PP achieved an absolute majority with 17 deputies (5 more than in 2019), compared to 12 for the PSOE (3 less), 2 for Podemos-IU (remain the same) and others 2 of Vox, which enters the Chamber for the first time.
In the Logroño City Council, the PP has obtained 14 councilors (5 more), compared to 9 from the PSOE (2 less), 2 from Vox (2 more), 1 from Podemos-IU (1 less) and 1 from Partido Riojano+ Empty Spain (same).