I socialisti spagnoli subiscono le peggiori perdite di sempre nella regione più grande

Spain’s governing Socialist party suffered its worst defeat ever in the country’s largest region, even as the conservative People’s Party also ceded ground.

The People’s Party, or PP, won 53 seats in Andalusia’s 109-member legislature on Sunday, compared with 58 in 2022, with 96% of the votes counted, according to local government data.

The Socialists took 28 seats, versus 30 four years ago. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had relied on one of his closest allies, former Finance Minister María Jesús Montero, to run for the regional presidency in an attempt to regain support in a key Socialist constituency, which the party governed for more than three decades until 2018.

Sunday’s election came four months after more than 40 people died in a train crash in Andalusia. The tragedy is still being investigated but led to strong criticism of the central government, which oversees trains and rail infrastructure.

Sánchez’s government has also been dogged in the past two years by a series of criminal investigations involving two of his closest aides as well as his wife. His popularity has also suffered in many regions – including Andalusia – for the administration’s concessions to Catalan nationalists.

Andalusia is Spain’s most populous region, with 8.7 million inhabitants out of nearly 50 million nationwide. About 6.8 million people were eligible to vote Sunday. While Sánchez has always failed to control it, the region continues to be one of the Socialists’ main constituencies in absolute number of voters.

The result means the PP, which has run Andalusia for the past eight years, will require support from nativist Vox to form a government. The two parties have a large overlap of voters, and have repeatedly formed coalitions in cities and regions in recent years.

The vote was the fourth in PP-governed regions in the past six months, and the last one ahead of national election in 2027. There are also ballots scheduled for most regions and cities in May 2027.

Vox came in third with 15 seats, one more than four years ago. Two far-left groups took fourth and fifth place, with a combined 13 seats.

Can’t wait to get this dude out of office in the next presidential elections in 2027

Yet gains in absolute vote counts, and the right has lost seats vs. left. If anything these results should worry PP

U popular take, better SPOE than the combination of the far more incompetent and  corrupt PP with the far right coalition. I guess spanish people i would assume prefer none

As a spaniard I can guarantee socialist deserve to lose. Hopefully some new party appears

Could the election be manipulated by Israel because the Spanish Prime Minister is against Israel?

The amount anti-spain posts on this sub after their recent comments on Israel is sickening. It’s obvious the amount of astro turfing that’s happening here

Watch whole Europe turn to fascism next votes. German, is already on the verge.