Inside a nondescript concrete building, with nerves on the surface and with signs of lasting longer than it should, the fate of Alcorcón is played in the street of Manuel de Luna in the capital, headquarters of the Electoral Board.

According to the provisional scrutiny contested by the Popular Party, the blues lost the mayor's office by 42 votes in one of the tightest elections that are remembered in the history of Spain, on the way to turning this town south of the capital into the "Spanish Florida", as joked sources of the socialist party.

The count, scheduled for 10 a.m. today, has been postponed by the Electoral Board. "The thing can go to tomorrow or even Monday," say sources close to calculation. "The envelopes sent from the messages have not yet been opened. The idea is to collate the results to know if there are transcription errors," they add.

The headquarters of the Electoral Board in the heart of the capital has become throughout the morning a hotbed of socialist politicians from Alcorcón. The candidate of the Madrid PSOE, Canderalia Testa, has moved there, accompanied by several of her councilors.

The provisional results show a minimal difference in votes between the left and right blocs. The provisional sum of the ballots of PP, Vox and Citizens is 44,617 and that of PSOE, Más Madrid and Ganar Alcorcón is 44,170.

A minimum margin in which, according to sources close to the electoral board, it is likely to vary throughout the weekend since the town registered about 1,000 null votes during the provisional count held at the foot of the ballot box. They are "strange things", point out to GRAN MADRID sources close to the popular, who could not count on proxies in all the tables during the elections.

In the event that the overturn does not finally occur in that last seat, the new candidate of the PSOE, Candelaria Testa, may succeed her partner Natalia de Andrés at the controls of the Consistory after the sum of PSOE (eight councilors), Ganar Alcorcón (four councilors) and Más Madrid (two councilors) achieves by a single seat the absolute majority.

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