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Updated Monday, February 19, 2024-00:27

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Test passed, halfway.

Democracia Ourensana

will have representation in the

Galician Parliament

, but Rueda will not need its support to govern. This Sunday

, Gonzalo Pérez Jácome

's party

won its first regional deputy in history, although his vote will not decide the direction of the Xunta government. They enter, but do not determine.

After having starred in an electoral campaign full of eccentricities,

with an astronaut costume and cinematographic allusions included

, Jácome closed the election night by toasting with a Ribeiro from Orense. To those who were left out of parliament he responded with a "carallo", while he did not hesitate to resort to a Galician proverb to respond to Rueda's accusations: "Vai falar de merda o que más cagado es" ("he's going to talk about shit the one who is most screwed").

"We will make a pact with the devil if he brings heaven to Orense." Jácome has not tired of repeating it, but in the end there will be no "devil" who needs his pact. The mayor of Orense promised that they would facilitate the government of Galicia "even the worst" if it guaranteed them investments for the province, if it "

showed them the ropes

", but finally the absolute majority of the PP has taken away their dream of being "the key to the Xunta".

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Far from showing any disappointment and still hoarse from the Carnival hangover, Jácome has used irony to refer to it: "We aspired to be a key and we hired impressive catering but, since we are not, we are looking to see who will pay for it." The controversial mayor celebrated this Sunday in a hotel in Orense that DO "

has put a pike in Flanders

" on 18-F, pointing out that "all progress begins with a first step" and trusting that his candidacy will attract more voters as the years pass. years.

During the campaign, Jácome has come to compare himself with "Basques and Catalans" for wanting the DO vote to serve as a "bargaining currency" to increase the budget of Orense, although he has clarified that, unlike the other nationalists, Their cause "is fair" because they are "

the poorest in Galicia

." He classified the BNG as a "Soviet party" and

Pontón

called it "radical," although he fired shots at all sides, ensuring that any of the leaders had "

monstrous things

."

The party seat will be occupied by

Armando Ojea

who, despite having remained in the shadow of Jácome throughout the campaign, also hides a peculiar career. Graduated in Physics, he toured Galician festivals as a keyboardist for the group Pachán and boasts of being multilingual: he speaks twelve languages, including Wolof, the ethnic language of Senegal and Gambia.

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Ourensana Democracy has gathered almost

15,000

votes in this Sunday's elections, taken from both the right and the left, and Jácome has become big in the capital, where he has even managed to surpass the PSOE. However, the regionalist party has lost more than three thousand voters compared to the 2023 municipal elections, in which in the city of Orense alone 18,450 voters chose their ballot.

At the regional level, with 98.5% counted, Democracia Ourensana has obtained 1% of the votes, behind Sumar's 1.9% and Vox's 2.2%. However, by running only in the province of Orense, where he has garnered 8.8% of the vote, Jácome has managed to translate those ballots into the first seat for a regionalist party in the Galician parliament.