Oviedo (EFE).- Adrián Barbón’s PSOE has once again won the regional elections in Asturias with one less seat than it had in the last legislature against a PP that went from ten to seventeen deputies and a Vox that went from two to four at the cost of the disappearance of Ciudadanos while IU Call for Asturias recovers to the detriment of Podemos.
In this way, and with a Forum that resists with one seat compared to what it had, the left adds the 19 socialist representatives plus those of three from the IU and the only one achieved by the purple formation -which had four- which would add up to the majority absolute in an autonomous parliament whose investiture system allows the candidate with the most votes to be appointed president in a second vote.
Waiting for the emigrant vote to be counted next Friday, which represents more than 14 percent of the census and in which an increase in participation is expected after the suppression of the requested vote, the PSOE, with almost 190,000 votes, representing 2,000 fewer votes compared to 2019, it has achieved support of 36.5 percent compared to the 35.2 it obtained four years ago.
After being the force with the most votes in the three constituencies into which Asturias is divided, the Socialists have won three seats in the eastern and western constituencies and thirteen in the central one, where they surpass Diego Canga’s PP by one, who has added 17 in the group in the region, seven more than four years ago and, with almost 170,000 votes, he has achieved a support of 32.6% (17.5% in 2019).
The popular ones, with three seats in the western constituency and two in the eastern one, have thus shared with the PSOE the deputies from the wings of the region while in the central one, the most populous, Vox has achieved its four representatives that make them in the third political force of the autonomous Chamber with its 52,340 votes, 10 percent, and 18,000 more supports than in 2019.
An IU grouped with Más País in Call for Asturies has also achieved representation in the constituency and has achieved three deputies -it had two- while Podemos has had one -three less- and Forum has saved the seat of its head of the list, Adrián Pumares , with a support of 3.6% and 19,206 votes throughout the region, 15,000 less than four years ago.
Ciudadanos will leave parliament after losing five seats and achieving 70,000 fewer votes than in 2019 to go from a support of 13.9% to 0.9% achieved today and Suma Principado will not enter either, the Forum split created by those close to Francisco Álvarez -Cascos, with just over a thousand votes while Sos Occidente, within Empty Spain, has barely reached 1% of votes.
The PSOE manages to “resist”
For the socialist candidate, Adrián Barbón, the result confirms that Asturias has become “a focus of progressive resistance” against the advance of the right in the rest of Spain and has managed to “resist” despite facing these elections in a “totally different” context from that of 2019 when the Asturian socialists had “a tailwind and now it was coming from the front”.
For his part, the head of the PP list, Diego Canga, has warned that it is still possible for the popular ones to tie in number of deputies for the emigrant vote and has proclaimed that “the socialist roller has finished” having achieved the popular ones their best result in fifteen years at the regional and municipal level, given that they can raise their mayoralties from 7 to 15.
Ciudadanos has described the result as bad “without palliatives”, which gives the relief as the third political force to Vox, whose candidate, Carolina López, has warned that “this is not the time to celebrate” since the PSOE will continue to govern while the forum member Adrián Pumares has stressed that his party “has a future” and that three years ago it was “an odyssey” to think that they would continue on the General Board.
In addition, the IU candidate, Ovidio Zapico, has already called on Barbón to define his model for Asturias and guarantee that they will provide “stability” as long as there are policies of change and has considered that his three seats lay “the foundations” of the Sumar de Yolanda Díaz in the Principality.
Finally, the one who will be the only representative of Podemos in the regional parliamentarian, Covadonga Tomé, has regretted a result that is also the result of the “many obstacles” of his candidacy due to the open crisis in the purple party and, after celebrating that it has been ruled out a government of PP and Vox, has demanded that from tomorrow work be done to find “a common space” to the left of the PSOE. EFE