The Spanish press highlights this Monday “the debacle” of the socialist party (PSOE) and the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the municipal and regional elections on Sunday in Spain and how the PP “swept away” with an “unmitigated” victory.
“The PP devastates Madrid and multiplies its territorial power,” reads the headline of today’s print edition of the newspaper El País, which in the editorial writes that the Popular Party (right) achieved “unmitigated success” on Sunday, although Now it faces the decision of whether or not to accept alliances with VOX (extreme right) to govern several autonomous communities and Spanish cities.
In another headline, the same newspaper writes that it was “anti-Sanchism” that led the PSOE to this defeat and harmed various regional and local barons of the party.
The newspaper El Mundo also writes that “the PP devastates and the punishment of Sánchez wipes the PSOE off the map.”
In the editorial, the newspaper maintains that “Spain punishes Sánchez’s way of governing” and that the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, “promotes change” in a country governed by the socialists since 2018 and that it will take place within six months. in December, national legislative elections.
For El Mundo, the elections on Sunday, which Feijóo turned into a referendum on “sanchismo”, ended up condemning the “alliances with populists and independentists” of Pedro Sánchez, who governs Spain in alliance with the extreme left platform United We can and that it has made pacts with Catalan and Basque parties to approve laws such as the state budget.
El ABC, another Spanish national newspaper, also writes that “the PP devastates and Sánchez drags the PSOE into abandonment” and that the “loss of territorial power” by the Socialists is “unprecedented”.
La Vanguardia, which is published in Catalonia, highlights today that the PP won the elections on a “lucky” night for the PSOE, which Feijóo “consolidates” in the face of the national legislatures “with a change in the territorial map and in the number of votes” and that “Sánchez suffers a severe blow half a year before the general elections”.
The autonomous and municipal map of Spain is no longer dominated by the socialists with the autonomous and local elections on Sunday, which the PP won, claiming the start of a “new political cycle” in the country.
The PSOE, at the head of the national government since 2018, led the autonomous executives of nine of the 12 autonomous communities that had elections on Sunday and lost more than half, keeping only four: Asturias, the Canary Islands, Castilla La Mancha and Navarra.
The PP, which only governed two of the regions that went to the polls on Sunday (Madrid and Murcia), could lead eight, together with Andalusia and Castilla y León, which advanced the elections to 2022 and which the Popular Party also won.
In the municipal elections, which were held throughout the country, the PP was also the party with the most votes as a whole, achieving an absolute majority in the Spanish capital, Madrid, and winning large cities such as Seville and Valencia on the left.
The left also had a defeat in Barcelona, the second largest city in the country that has governed with a coalition of various forces and movements since 2015.
Contrary to what most of the polls predicted, in Barcelona the right-wing independence party Together for Catalonia (JxCat) won on Sunday, although without a majority that would guarantee the leadership of the municipality, and now it will be necessary to see what post-electoral alliances will they will form
The PP leader this morning claimed a clear victory in the elections, considering them the beginning of “a new political cycle” in the country.
“Spain has started a new political cycle,” said Alberto Núñez Feijóo, a former president of the Xunta de Galicia who was elected leader of the PP just over a year ago and had his first electoral test on Sunday.
VOX also won the victory, both in the regional one, where representation in the regional parliaments increased, and in the municipal one, where it reached 7.19% of the global votes (it had had 3.56% in the previous parliaments). municipal).
For the leader of the far-right party, Santiago Abascal, this Sunday VOX “has established itself as a national project” and as an “absolutely necessary” party to build an alternative to the left in Spain.
Pedro Sánchez did not make any statements and it was up to the PSOE spokesperson and Education Minister, Pilar Alegria, to make brief statements to journalists in which she admitted the “bad result”.
The socialist regional leaders also admitted defeat and spoke of a “tsunami” that would hit the PSOE throughout the territory.
Source: TSF
