Santiago de Compostela, (EFE).- The Galician PP not only has not noticed the march of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, four times autonomous president by absolute majority, but has managed to improve his municipal results in the elections this Sunday compared to the appointment in the 2019 town halls, with the PSdeG in slight decline and the BNG on the rise.
The urban municipal sphere was his Achilles heel during the Núñez Feijóo stage at the head of the party (2006-2022), since only between 2011 and 2015 did his party manage to govern in A Coruña, Ferrol and Santiago and between 2015 and 2019 in Ourense .
With 99% of the votes counted, in the elections this Sunday the formation now led by Alfonso Rueda has won the elections with almost 39% of the votes, six points more than four years ago and nine points more than the PSdeG, second force, when in 2019 he barely won these municipal elections by half a point over the socialists.
PP and BNG would manage to add around a hundred more councilors each, an amount similar to what the Socialists would jointly lose in all of Galicia.
The PP has recovered the Mayor’s Office of Ferrol by an absolute majority and is the first force in five of the seven main cities -A Coruña, Lugo, Ferrol, Pontevedra and Santiago de Compostela- although it will not be able to govern more than in Ferrol due to the lack of allies.
The recount is also being meticulous in the Deputations, where the PP could recover the provincial government of Lugo and Pontevedra, after several years, as well as maintain the Deputation of Ourense; although it is not yet closed.
PSdeG and BNG
The result of Abel Caballero in Vigo, again above 60% of the vote, has once again been overwhelming and he will achieve his fifth term, the third by absolute majority.
In the rest of the cities, the Socialists manage to rise slightly in A Coruña and remain the same or rise slightly in the rest, except in Santiago de Compostela, where they fell with a bang and could lose the Mayor’s Office.
The general secretary of the PSdeG, Valentín González Formoso, will continue as mayor of As Pontes (A Coruña) despite a significant drop, going from 12 to 7 councillors.
The BNG, second force in the Galician Parliament, continues to rise and manages to increase its representation in the cities by 50%.
The nationalists will not only retain the Mayor’s Office of Fernández Lores, mayor since 1999, albeit with a slight drop from 11 to 9 councilors and losing first place to the PP; but they could get Goretti Sanmartín to be the first nationalist mayor of the Galician capital, after the defeat of the PSdeG.
The group led by Ana Pontón doubles its representation in A Coruña and Ourense, triples it in Vigo and Santiago, rises in Ferrol, remains in Lugo and falls slightly in Pontevedra.
OURENSE
A separate case is the city of Ourense, where Democracia Ourensana, the formation of its controversial mayor, Gonzalo Pérez Jácome, would manage to be the first force with an increase of three councilors over 2019, going from 7 to 10 councilors.
In this way, either all the others agree, PP, PSdeG and BNG, or Jácome could revalidate, again in a minority, his position.
other localities
In addition to the cities, Alternativa dos Veciños will continue to govern in Oleiros, the ninth Galician city by population; Alberto Varela (PSdeG) would lose the absolute majority and will depend on agreements with the BNG to continue in office; the BNG will continue in Carballo and Bueu, among others, the PP in Sanxenxo, Marín and Lalín, among other towns, and TEGA would win again in Narón, the eighth largest city in population.
Regional 2024
A little over a year after the Galician elections, in the summer of 2024, the first elections without Alberto Núñez Feijóo would confirm a traditional Parliament with three forces, with the PP leading and with a number of BNG and PSdeG still uncertain to wrest power from the PP, since a direct extrapolation of results cannot be made.
The elections this Sunday, in addition, leave the disappearance of the Atlantic Tide -which governed A Coruña in 2015-, the reduction to more than half of Compostela Aberta and a new decrease of Ferrol in Común, also in the governments of those cities in 2015.
Ciudadanos leaves its testimonial role in Galicia, it had 33 councilors obtained in the 2019 elections -only 6 in the cities- and it loses all of them; while Vox continues without entering any Galician town hall.