Raúl Piña Madrid
Madrid
Updated Sunday, February 18, 2024-23:47
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Elections Results in Galicia, in detail
Minimum refrigeration 27 degrees. Maximum heating 19 degrees. It is the poster next to the thermostats of
Ferraz
, national headquarters of the PSOE. The Galician gale of the PP left the socialists frozen yesterday. Shivering from the cold, with its worst historical result: 9 seats and 206,215 votes, this is 5 seats and 47,535 votes less than in 2020. "This is at a funeral," sources from the Galician socialists summarized. The
PSOE
is losing autonomic muscle again, starting to be in the bones. For example, in
Galicia
. Another territory where it goes down the drain. "Today we did not obtain the expected results," admitted José Ramón Besteiro, socialist candidate. "It has not been a good result," confirmed
Esther Peña,
spokesperson for the PSOE.
The setback installs "fediness" and "concern" in the party about the near future. This is the regret that socialist officials and leaders convey to this newspaper. «Let this end as soon as possible. Better soon, because the situation is difficult, complicated," they repeat, alluding to the wear and tear that the
amnesty
and coexistence with the nationalists mean for the PSOE. In the party they hope that the whole mess about forgiveness, the tug-of-war with Carles Puigdemont, ends, in one sense or another, but that it "ends as soon as possible."
The Galician elections were the first time that the polls were opened after Pedro Sánchez's bid for amnesty. In fact, the socialists, who tried to
Galicianize
the campaign in the early stages, seeking to attract that municipal vote that turned their back on them in the regional elections, ended up making a commitment to nationalize the event, especially after the turn of Alberto Núñez Feijóo with the amnesty, after acknowledging that he valued it, as well as the pardon for
Puigdemont
. "These vagaries of Feijóo have not taken their toll on the PP," they acknowledge from the socialist leadership. Failure in the result and failure in the enterprise of weakening the leadership of the
popular
. "The result of the PP is worse than four years ago," the socialists tried to console themselves.
In Ferraz and
La Moncloa
they boasted that the amnesty "for us no longer wears out" and that now the "problem" was for the PP. "In any case, they voted against the amnesty, as in the regional elections they voted against
Sánchez
or in the general elections against
Vox
," summarized socialist sources. «If the Galicians care about the amnesty, there is the rush of the BNG. "It has been voted in a Galician key," they opposed yesterday from Ferraz.
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The PSOE's strategy was to try to open a waterway for the PP by focusing on
Feijóo
, who was the "one who takes the risk" and promoting the mobilization of the left, assuming a "borrowed vote" to the
BNG
, a transfer well seen, white glove with the nationalists, prioritizing change over a good result. In fact, the fall of the PSOE explains the rise of the BNG. The nationalists have devoured the socialists. A strategy that generates criticism within the training. "If you say that they are good, what happens is that in the end people vote for them and not us, which is what has happened." The officials consulted give the example that this has already happened in the
Basque Country
with the
PNV
or in
Cantabria
with the
PRC
. The analysis of the night leaves criticism for the fact of "letting ourselves go" against the BNG.
"Our vote goes to the BNG, but it does not bear fruit," they admit from the socialist leadership. «There is a displacement of votes, but there was a lack of mobilization. The socialists saw high participation as the option of "change." There was -67.3%-. "The expectation of losing has mobilized the right."
This failed strategy was recognized, implicitly, in
Besteiro
's appearance . His message was that the opposition aspires to "consolidate a project that is recognized by citizens and is a real alternative." The socialist candidate was elected in October and in
Galicia
and Ferraz many believe that "we have not had time."
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What happened in Galicia, and with the Basque Country as the next electoral horizon, where
PNV
and
Bildu
start on the grid with a clear position of advantage over the PSOE, added to the great distance that the BNG has gained from the socialists - 16 deputies and 257,647 votes - endangers, they believe in the party, the discourse that with the PSOE "nationalism decreases" which is the message that was conveyed with the results of the general elections in
Catalonia
- it will hold elections and La Moncloa trusts everything to that
Salvador Illa
's PSC
wins to legitimize its roadmap - and that the PSOE "is strong on the periphery."
After the regional elections in May, where the PSOE suffered a hemorrhage of institutional power, Galicia follows the same path with an unmitigated collapse. They only govern in three territories -
Castilla-La Mancha
,
Asturias
and
Navarra
- and have remained subordinate to nationalism, without being the alternative in important regions. "We have the communities against us," believe sectors of the party. "Pedro pulls, but he doesn't contribute," they object in more than one territory. "He is bleeding, humiliating." From Ferraz, however, they claim "our backbone role in Spain."
In the specific case of Galicia, the PSOE has been in decline since 2009, when the absolute majorities of the
PP
began , first with Feijóo, now with
Alfonso Rueda
. That year he obtained 25 seats and 524,488 votes. Until yesterday, it was downhill in 2020, with 14 seats and 253,750 votes. But the fall continues without, for the moment, the impact with the ground being heard.