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The exceptionality of Miguel Ángel Revilla is over. The Cantabrian president of the PRC spent the entire campaign defying the polls, which placed him in third place, sunk after his spectacular victory in 2019. He said that they lied, that they always underestimated the PRC and that his party was "high." He announced that this Sunday, in his victory speech, he would remember especially José Félix Tezanos, the president of the CIS, with whom he admitted that he maintained a "personal" confrontation.

The polls returned a hard blow, and consecrated the PP of María José Sáenz de Buruaga as the clear winner and her as future president. With Vox? With the PRC? The PP can choose a partner after climbing to 35% and recovering the power it lost after the legislature of Ignacio Diego between 2011 and 2015.

When 50% of the vote had not yet been reached, Revilla appeared visibly affected, defeated but without announcing his goodbye yet, despite the age of 80 and that he had advanced since this would be his last term as president of Cantabria. Now that it won't be, its future remains to be decided.

The Popular Party grows from 9 to 15 deputies and remains only three seats away from an absolute majority. The PSOE of Pablo Zuloaga will be second force, with eight regional parliamentarians, one more than in 2019 and the same as the PRC, which loses six and has in its hand to facilitate the investiture of the PP or avoid a pact with Vox, against which Revilla had been warning throughout the campaign. The candidacy of the green party, headed by Leticia Díaz, who was already counselor of the Presidency with the PP, achieves four representatives.

The PP did not hide its euphoria during the count, while it was underpinning a victory based on the absolute majority achieved by Gema Igual in Santander. The popular are spared pacts in the regional capital, which will foreseeably also free their hands to negotiate power in the autonomous community.

In his statements admitting defeat, Revilla analyzed that in Cantabria there has been an "undeniable" "tide" of the right and prophesied that "the tides are unstoppable and are quite similar in all places." The president had no qualms about pointing to Pedro Sánchez as responsible for his own defeat and referred to the pacts "quite unnatural that most Spaniards have not understood", referring to EH Bildu, ERC and even Podemos, from whom the leader of the PRC has always tried to stay away.

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