The conservative Popular Party (PP)
maintains the absolute majority in the regional elections held in Galicia,
according to exit polls.
The PP obtains between 39 and 41 seats, compared to the current 43, in the Galician parliament, where the absolute majority is located at 38 deputies.
The progressive Galician nationalist Bloc (BNG), second, gains seven deputies
and reaches between 25 and 26.
The socialists, who currently have 14, would drop to a range between 9 and 12 deputies.
These are three polls that give the PP
, led at the national level by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, between 38 and 40 seats compared to the 42 it has now.
All surveys agree on a strong rise in the nationalist party BNG, which could gain up to seven more seats than in the 2020 elections (from 24 to 26), accompanied by a fall in the socialists (PSdeG-PSOE), estimated at up to five. fewer representatives, with a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 12 deputies compared to the current 14.
In Galicia, in the northwest of Spain,
2.7 million voters were called, of which more than 475,000 reside abroad
, many of them in Latin America, which represents 18% of the Galician electoral roll.
Ana Pontón, BNG candidate for the Presidency of the Xunta.
Photo EFE
On this occasion, 6.15% more voters abroad voted, five times more than in the previous 2020 elections.
The foreign vote
will begin to be counted on February 26
and the process could last until the 29th at the latest.
In Argentina, popularly considered the fifth Galician province (the region has four),
nearly 200,000 Galicians could vote in these elections.
Cuba is the second country, after Argentina, with the most voters in the Electoral Census of Absent Residents (CERA) for these elections with about 45,600.
Other countries with a significant colony of Galicians are Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela and Switzerland.
This Sunday's regional elections were the twelfth since Galicia had autonomy, and in most of them the PP won;
In fact,
this party has governed Galicia since 1982, except in two terms
(1987-1990 and 2005-2009), when the executive was chaired by socialists.
Starting in 2009, the Popular Party governed, when Alberto Núñez Feijóo won by an absolute majority, a result he repeated in 2012, 2016 and 2020.
The current PP candidate, Alfonso Rueda, who replaced Feijóo in 2022 when he assumed the presidency of the PP at the national level, faced the challenge of revalidating that majority.
Source: ANSA and EFE
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