In Barcelona, the outgoing mayor Ada Colau leads (ANSA). The center-right and Vox could wrest crucial Spanish municipalities such as Valencia and Seville from the center-left.
Madrid remains firmly in the hands of the popular and Barcelona is disputed between the socialists of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the independentists. The popular Isabel Díaz Ayuso can triumph at the administrative elections in the Madrid region, where she could obtain an absolute majority and a third term as governor.