Oviedo (EFE) difficult”.
Queipo recalled that, pending the recount of the emigrant vote scheduled for Friday, the PP is 934 votes away from adding a deputy to the detriment of the PSOE in the eastern constituency “in order to turn the region around.”
In this regard, he has assumed that “we must be very cautious” because the foreign vote has been mostly socialist in other elections and the number of votes received is also unknown.
In last Sunday’s elections, the PSOE obtained three deputies for the eastern constituency with 15,003 votes, while the PP obtained the remaining two with 14,069, representing a difference of 934 votes.
In Asturias, the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) includes 123,201 people and represents 14.7 percent of Asturians with the right to vote in the autonomous communities, the highest percentage in the entire country in Sunday’s elections, while In the eastern constituency, 27,618 emigrants have the right to vote, representing 46.9 percent of the census.
Four years ago, the emigrant vote had a share of just over 2 percent, although this time an increase is expected as the requested vote has been suppressed.
Queipo highlights the “strong and solid” position of the PP
In the event that the PP finally seizes that deputy from the Socialists, both formations would have 18 deputies in the regional hemicycle, where IU has three representatives and one Podemos, a sum that would leave the left below the absolute majority, set in 23 seats.
In this scenario, with the four deputies that Vox has reached in these elections, twice as many as it had, the only deputy from Foro Asturias (Adrián Pumares) could be decisive when it comes to forming majorities in the Principality’s General Meeting.
“Everything is open, and what is certain is that we have the satisfaction of having done the job well,” said Queipo, who has considered that, if the change does not take place, Adrián Barbón will be “dedicated to building a tripartite government if you are looking for stability”, a scenario in which, however, “the PP will have a stronger and more solid position, with 17 deputies on the Board”.
At the municipal level, Queipo has advanced that the PP will begin next week to negotiate in all those councils in which there are possibilities of an agreement to establish “governments of change of the center right” with the ultimate objective of providing “stability”. EFE