The Popular Party celebrates in style the results obtained in Galicia. Firstly, because of its resounding nature, because it has added a new absolute majority, the fifth, despite having changed candidates only two years ago.
Secondly, because in the electoral battle that ended on Sunday night, he believes he has found the way to defeat the Government of Pedro Sánchez. “This is the recipe – Alberto Núñez Feijóo stressed yesterday in his speech at the meeting of the Galician PP steering committee held in a hotel in Santiago –, concentrate the vote on the PP, we will stop the independence movement and send it to the most absolute irrelevance. to sanchismo. This is Galicia's message for the whole world.”
And, in view of the results, at least in Galicia, the formula proposed by Feijóo works. Not in vain, they have managed to make the Socialist Party of Galicia become a quasi-irrelevant political force in this community with only nine deputies out of a total of 75 that make up the Parliament, and, furthermore, because with a mobilization worthy of a well-oiled political organization, have managed to stop the Galician nationalists, the emerging force in this contest.
For Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in Galicia a victory has been achieved “against everything and everyone. We have won against the irresponsibility of the PSOE, which entrusted itself to Galician nationalism to defeat us. We have won those who wanted this to be a leadership plebiscite, and they have lost it. The Government wanted to make these elections a problem for the PP, and now they are the ones who have a problem,” he states.
In these campaign chronicles we wrote that Sánchez had very little to lose and a lot to gain given that the socialists were already the third political force in Galicia since 2020. In theory it couldn't get worse, but it did get worse. The Party of Socialists of Galicia – which tomorrow will hold an executive with an uncertain outcome – obtained a catastrophic result with nine deputies, five below those it obtained four years ago. Only one survey gave him that result, which, in the middle of the campaign, seemed eccentric. And yet that was the end. The PSOE and Sánchez have lost a lot and have gained nothing.
On the contrary, Feijóo, who today will meet the steering committee on Génova Street to assess the results from a state perspective, could have been the great victim of these elections. Even maintaining the absolute majority, the entanglements over the amnesty in the middle of the campaign placed him in a very delicate moment. That untimely leak – until now without a recognized author – had even managed to upset the team of his successor, Alfonso Rueda. But the severe defeat of the socialists in Galicia frees him from guilt. It's all congratulations, as he demonstrated yesterday in Santiago surrounded by party officials, all happy and smiling.
The truth is that it was Alfonso Rueda's PP campaign team that had the ability to react to that adverse scenario. “They turned the regional elections into municipal ones. "They called door to door to all the neighbors to go and vote," says the campaign manager of one of the opposition parties, who saw how the PP, weak and disoriented at the beginning of the last week of the campaign, came back in the elections. last days. Shouting that nothing changes on the island of stability, the PP of Galicia has done an immense favor to Feijóo and a huge disappointment to Sánchez.
The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, praised his electoral team and all the territorial leaders who achieved the great mobilization that managed to stop the wave of change that seemed to advance in Galicia. “We have managed to stop Pedro Sánchez and his nationalist partners in their tracks,” Rueda celebrated.
Yesterday, Feijóo ended his speech by investing the president of the Xunta as another baron of the party and encouraged him to prepare for the Basque and European elections.
