Feijóo makes history and nationalism sweeps the Basque Country

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Neither the coronavirus outbreaks, nor the increase in abstention, nor the mistakes made in four years and especially during the pandemic, nor the harsh attacks of the adversaries have been sufficient to change the political sign in Galicia and the Basque Country , the two territories that have premiered the ballot boxes in the era of the "new normal" after the health crisis caused by the Covid-19.

The PP, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo at the forefront, validates and improves the absolute majority in Galicia. And now there are four, the same ones that Manuel Fraga got . The PNV, with Iñigo Urkullu, even when it does not manage to reach the 38-seat benchmark, consolidates and expands its status as a historical force of government, only beaten in the 2009-2012 legislature at the hands of a pact between socialists and the people.

The results in both communities show a tremendous disaster for Unidas Podemos and its brands, a collapse that, in addition, fails to make the PSOE, its partner in the national coalition government , profitable . Both socialists and purples suffer a heavy blow in this first challenge at the ballot box after the long months of the pandemic.

The leader of Podemos in Galicia assumes the electoral failure

The management of both government allies does not achieve, in this first test, even the one approved. Neither the social shield, nor the Minimum Vital Income, nor the ERTE, nor the promise not to face the economic crisis derived from the Covid with cuts, nor of course the state of alarm have served to attract the votes of the Galician and Basques towards acronyms sponsored in the whole of Spain by Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias. What the purple ones lose , which is a lot, the socialists cannot attract. On this occasion, the communicating vessels theory has failed.

The results in both communities have a clear reading in the national key that also has a full impact on the first opposition party. In the PP field, Pablo Casado comes out with a bittersweet flavor: Galician success is exclusively noted by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who thus enhances his political stature and consecrates himself as the leader capable of being the alternative, while failure in the Basque Country it is largely pointed out in the income statement of Casado himself, the executing hand of an abrupt change in the popular candidacy - he surprisingly replaced Alfonso Alonso with Carlos Iturgaiz - which, by all accounts, has not convinced Basque conservative voters.

Feijóo already meets all the conditions to be seen as a future leader at the Genoa headquarters. With its new success, the most extreme and harsh voices of the Popular Party lose strength and the more moderate and inclined towards pact politics gain ground.

Neither in one community nor in another community has the Citizen force made a remarkable journey. In Galicia, Feijóo's push has been overwhelming and the oranges , if they had joined forces, would have contributed little with their 9,400 votes and, in Euskadi, a community in which PP and Cs have formed tandem, the sum has not even given to maintain the results that the popular ones achieved alone in the elections of four years ago.

Analyzed with the national prism, the other big loser of the day is the leader of Unidas Podemos, Pablo Iglesias. Neither the entry of his training in the central government with five portfolios, nor his status as second vice president, nor the fact that the Ferrolana, Yolanda Díaz, is the Minister of Labor, has served to prop up the brands associated with Unidas Podemos -la Galician, En Marea and the Basque Elkarriken Podemos -, which have reaped a historic defeat.

In Galicia, Antón Gómez Reino (En Marea), has not won a single seat in Parliament. His failure is unmatched. In 2016, the purple- sponsored coalition won no less than 14 seats and 254,500 votes. In 2020, after four years of dismemberment, he was left without representation. And the most striking thing: the PSdeG, with Gonzalo Caballero exercising leadership, has not managed to get any slice of this fall.

The Galician socialists maintain the same result that they obtained in the harvest of four years ago with the difference that they are now positioned as the third force forcefully advanced by the BNG, led by Ana Pontón who has literally eaten up all the purple ballots .

Pablo Iglesias' ensign in the Basque Country has not had much better luck, where it has lost half of the votes and seats, going from the 11 obtained in 2016 to just six. In the Basque Country, the most radical left-wing vote has decided to join the ranks of Bildu, a formation that in these elections has made a significant leap from 18 to 22 seats. This success of the abertzales together with the triumph of Basque nationalism draws a Chamber with clearly sovereign profiles, in which constitutionalism is already heavily cornered.

The surprise on the Basque terrain also came from the hand of Vox, a force that largely led the campaign due to the continuous altercations that occurred in its electoral acts. Those of Santiago Abascal have managed to drag enough votes to snatch a precious seat from the PP-Cs coalition. For Vox, the Basque Country is a deeply hostile terrain and despite this, with its extreme discourse in favor of the unity of Spain, the centralization of powers and the radical confrontation with everything that sounds like nationalism and sovereignty, has managed to sneak into the Basque Chamber.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Basque Country Elections
• Galicia Elections
• Politics
• Inigo Urkullu
• Alberto Núñez Feijoo
• Galicia
• PP
• Basque Country
• Pablo Iglesias
• United We Can
• PSOE
• Citizens
• Vox
• Yolanda Diaz
• PNV
• Pablo Casado
• Pedro Sánchez
• Carlos Iturgaiz
• Alfonso Alonso
• BNG
• Bildu

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