Valencia (EFE).- The Valencians have a new appointment this Sunday with the polls eight weeks after the regional and municipal elections of May 28, this time to decide in general elections the 33 people who will represent the Community in Congress and the 12 who will do so in the Senate.
After an electoral campaign that has coincided with the investiture of the popular Carlos Mazón as the new president of the Generalitat and with the formation of the new Valencian government made up of the PP and Vox, the Valencians decide in a matter of hours if the turnaround that the right gave on 28M is replicated or if the left recovers space.
3.7 million Valencians called to the polls
A total of 3.7 million Valencians will be able to exercise their right to vote this Sunday -many have already done so by mail, due to the coincidence of the electoral date with the holiday period-, of which 3.6 million reside in the Community and 126,621 are Valencians residing abroad.
The increase in population that the Valencian Community has experienced since the general elections of November 2019 allows one more deputy to be elected on this occasion than then: there are 16 for the province of Valencia (one more), 12 for Alicante and 5 for Castellón, while the senators remain at 12 (4 per province).
In the province of Valencia, there will be 11 lists for Congress and 10 for the Senate; in Alicante between 9 to the Congress and 7 to the Senate; and in Castellón between 8 to Congress and 7 to the Senate, among which there is no Ciudadanos, a party that currently has 2 seats, nor Unides Podem, which has 4 and has integrated, along with Compromís, which has 1, in Sumar.
The right-wing block obtained a majority in deputies in 2019
Four years ago, the Socialists, who in the April 2019 elections had become the most voted after 26 years of PP hegemony, were the first force seven months later, although the right-wing bloc achieved an absolute majority of deputies (17 out of 32) and there was a tie for senators (6 from the PSOE and 6 from the PP).
On this occasion, Carlos Mazón’s PP comes out to complete the change that led to 28M and repeat as the hegemonic force to help Alberto Núñez Feijóo reach Moncloa, thanks to a new majority in which Vox hopes to be decisive and reach the Government, as has happened in the Valencian Community.
On the left, Ximo Puig’s socialists, who improved their results on 28M but could not retain the Generalitat, are confident that they can stop the advance of the right and avoid another “shame pact” in Spain, as they describe the PP-Vox agreement in the Consell, and Compromís, now hand in hand with Sumar, wants to be essential to consolidate a progressive majority.
After the count on Sunday night, the official scrutiny at the provincial electoral boards will take place from July 28 to 31; the proclamation of elect will take place from August 1 to 9; and the constitutive session of the Cortes Generales of the fifteenth legislature will take place on August 17.