• High speed report with (at least) 13 years of delay for the dwindling Asturias

The election night has left such a tight scenario in Asturias that the victory is pending the external vote, which in its census represents almost 13% of the total. With 98% counted, the socialist Adrián Barbón wins the elections but does so with punishment. He loses a deputy and sees how the PP achieves its best result in many years. Diego Canga, the EU official chosen by Alberto Núñez Feijóo to awaken his party in the socialist stronghold, goes from 10 to 17 seats and remains only two behind the PSOE, so close that the blocs could end up indicating who presides over the Principality.

The left and the right have been practically equal in Asturias not only because of the behavior of the two main parties. Vox goes from being the weakest force in the General Meeting to the third position, doubling its representatives and reaching 4. Call for Asturias (IU and More Country) concentrates the vote to the left of the PSOE and grows a deputy to achieve three. It does so at the expense of Podemos, which pays for internal tensions by leaving all its seats except one, which will be for Cova Tomé, confronted with the national and regional leadership. With only one Member there is also Forum.

Although it has been the most voted, the PSOE can lose Gijón by the pull of Carmen Moriyón. The Forum candidate was, between 2011 and 2019, the only non-socialist mayor of the city. In the previous municipal elections he did not run, which sank the representation of his party. With his return, he has shown that candidates sometimes outperform acronyms. A rising PP can return the Mayor's Office.

In Oviedo voters recognize the task done by their mayor, the independent by the PP Alfredo Canteli, propelling him to an absolute majority in a City Council from which Cs and Podemos disappear. After being swept away in 2019, IU returns to the Asturian capital with the electoral coalition Convocation for Oviedo led by Gaspar Llamazares.

  • Asturias
  • Municipal Elections
  • PSOE
  • Adrian Barbon
  • Articles Iratxe Red
  • Can
  • Oviedo
  • IU
  • PP
  • Gaspar Llamazares Wheat
  • Citizenry
  • Alberto Núñez Feijóo
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