Valencia (EFE) The sum of its 40 seats and the 13 of Vox reaches 53, three more than the absolute majority in Les Corts.
In his debut as a candidate, the president of the PPCV, Carlos Mazón, achieves the challenge of wresting from the PSOE its main position after eight years of Ximo Puig as president in the most closely fought regional elections in recent years, which had placed the Valencian Community in the center of the political board of the country this 28M.
The technical draw between blocks that started in these elections has been resolved by a difference of 5 deputies, in favor of the conservative block, so that after two legislatures in which the left has governed in coalition, through the Botanical Pact, there will be a change of cycle.
The 31 seats of the Socialists (4 have risen) and the 15 of Compromís (it has lost 2) yield 46 after the disappearance of Unides Podem, four below the long-awaited 50 of the absolute majority of Les Corts, with which the left goes to the opposition.
The right will return to the Palau
The PP, with the candidacy of its regional president for two years, Carlos Mazón (Alicante, 49 years old), has managed to once again be the party with the most votes (as in all the elections from 1993 to 2019) after absorbing a large part of the electorate of Citizens and go from 508,534 votes to more than 848,000, with 96% counted.
After an electoral campaign in which the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who has raised these elections as a ‘first round’ of the generals, turned around, the popular ones have doubled their seats, going from 19 to 40, and have increased the percentage of support by more than 16 points, from 19.3 to 35.3%, making them the majority group in Les Corts.
Mazón is thus in a position to be the seventh president of the Generalitat -the fourth of the PP, after Eduardo Zaplana, José Luis Olivas, Francisco Camps and Alberto Fabra-, for which he needs the support of Vox, a party that defends that it replicate a government like that of Castilla y León, where they hold the vice presidency.
In a Valencian Parliament made up of 99 deputies, the 40 achieved by the PP force it to look for Vox, which with the list headed by Carlos Flores (Valencia, 59 years old), who in 2002 was convicted of sexist violence against his ex-wife, rises in its second elections from 10 to 12 seats, which added to those of the PP exceed the absolute majority by two.
Ciudadanos concludes its stage in Les Corts, where it broke out in 2015, achieving only 1.49% for the candidacy led by its trustee since January, Mamen Peris (València, 55 years old).
The Botanic ends after 8 years
The electoral triumph of the conservative bloc -which has also won the municipal elections in the Comunitat- puts an end to two legislatures in which the left has governed in coalition through two editions of the Botanical Pact: in the first the Consell was made up of PSPV and Compromís , with parliamentary support from Unides Podem, and in the second the three parties were in the Executive.
The socialists of Ximo Puig (Morella, Castellón, 64 years old) lose a symbolic place that they conquered in 2015 after twenty years of PP governments with their worst historical result, in which four years later they returned to be the most voted after 28 years, and now they become second force and achieve 32 deputies.
Not even Puig’s strategy of leading the list for Valencia in these elections, where the largest number of deputies is elected, instead of Castellón, as in the last two elections, has been successful in retaining the Generalitat.
The second botanical force, Compromís, achieved 15 seats (lost two) after the departure of Mónica Oltra and the jump from national politics to regional politics of Joan Baldoví (Swedish, Valencia, 64 years old), with which it recovers the status of third Les Cortes group.
The Botànic will not be able to be reissued because its third leg, Unides Podem, with the candidacy led this time by the second vice president of the Consell, Héctor Illueca (València, 47 years old), has fallen below the electoral bar (3.5%), which makes it extra-parliamentary after two legislatures.
With these results, Les Corts of the eleventh legislature, which will be constituted on June 26, will see their parliamentary groups reduced to four.