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The forecasts were pessimistic, but not as pessimistic as the results.

The left beyond the PSOE pays dearly for the fragmentation resulting from its internal battles and suffers a colossal debacle in a historical feud, proof of the sociological turnaround that

Andalusia

has just experienced .

For Andalusia, the coalition formed by Podemos, IU and Más País, and sponsored by Yolanda Díaz, will have five seats in the regional Parliament.

For its part, Adelante Andalucía, led by Teresa Rodríguez -the former leader of Podemos in Andalusia-, will have two deputies.

An electoral "destruction", as described by Por Andalucía.

Barely a month ago, the coalition led by

Inma Nieto

internally managed the calculation of between 12 and 13 parliamentarians.

Nothing is further from reality: not even the sum with Adelante Andalucía comes close to such figures.

The space that both formations represent had 17 seats and now there will be seven.

It is necessary to look back to

2008

to find such a low result for the alternative to the PSOE on the left, when IU won six seats.

The lack of unity has penalized both Inma Nieto and Teresa Rodríguez.

Por Andalucía (at the close of this edition, 281,000 votes) and Adelante Andalucía (168,000) did not equal the 586,000 votes achieved before the breakup of the purples in the region.

In fact, Vox, with just one more point in the percentage of the vote (13.46%), achieves twice as many deputies (14) than the space represented by the hypothetical broad front that Yolanda Díaz aspires to unite at the national level.

Díaz, forced to accept defeat

The Andalusian result, in fact, inevitably compromises the second vice president of the Government.

Díaz launches his political project in less than 20 days and for the first time -after tiptoeing through Castilla y León in February- he has been actively involved in the 19-J campaign with several acts in which he has outlined that Andalusia is the previous step to the conformation of its plan.

Similarly, he supported the election of the coalition candidate, Inma Nieto, from IU.

Sources from Por Andalucía, after admitting the electoral blow, explained that the parties that make up this coalition are obliged to make a "general reflection" right now and study why the involvement of Díaz, the greatest political asset that the left has to the left of the PSOE, it has failed to mobilize the traditional Andalusian progressive electorate.

The territorial X-ray of both parties is devastating: the lefts did not achieve a deputy in Almería, Huelva (for Andalusia it was just over 600 votes) nor Jaén;

For Andalusia, he obtained a seat for Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Málaga and Seville.

Therefore, the autonomous leaders of Podemos (Juan Antonio Delgado, for Cádiz) and Más País (Esperanza Gómez, for Seville) obtain representation in Parliament.

Adelante Andalucía gets a seat for Cádiz (where it surpasses Por Andalucía by nearly 3,000 votes) and also for Seville.

From Por Andalucía they warned at noon that the participation data were not "determining" to ensure an optimal result for the left and showed uncertainty about a possible slowdown in the afternoon due to the heat, the beach and the traffic jams back to the main capitals of province.

Despite the fact that the vote actually slowed down in the last stages of the day, the participation did not save the results of the left, which returned to an almost testimonial level that recalls the years of bipartisanship.

Nieto blames Rodríguez... and the polls

Self-criticism, but also pointing to external factors.

Inma Nieto blamed the polls published during the campaign for designing "the idea impossible to topple" that Moreno would be president with no alternative to change.

The truth is that participation grew compared to 2018, but the mobilization did not benefit the left.

She also accused Teresa Rodríguez of preventing the space of the radical left from going unified to the polls.

"Unity was essential," reproached the leader of Por Andalucía, who admitted that the result achieved is "very far from the objective" set and that her project "needs more time", in a clear reference to the development that is now in the hands of Yolanda Diaz.

Rodríguez, for her part, avoided mentioning Nieto and celebrated that Vox did not enter the Board.

"Turning on the light is dispelling the monsters," she launched.

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