The Popular Party would maintain the absolute majority in the Galician elections that were held this Sunday, February 18, and could continue to lead the Xunta de Galicia for another four years, according to the polls published at the close of the polling stations. The GAD3 survey for Forta, the federation of autonomous television stations in Spain, predicts that the Popular Party could govern again without problems and that the Galician socialists would regress significantly. The rise of the BNG would not be enough for there to be an alternative government in that community; The popular ones would thus add five consecutive absolute majorities.
Thus, according to the survey by the GAD3 firm, the PP of Alfonso Rueda would obtain 39 or 40 seats, followed by the Galician nationalists led by Ana Pontón, with 25 or 26 and the PSOE of José Ramón Gómez Besteiro would be the third force with nine. or ten deputies, four or five less than in 2020. The local formation Democracia Ourensana could obtain a deputy in that province. Sumar, Vox and Podemos would be left without parliamentary representation.
Likewise, a SigmaDos survey for El Mundo shows similar results. The Popular Party would have between 38 and 40 seats, the BNG would be second with 24 or 25 parliamentarians and the PSOE-PSdG would be the third force with between 10 and 12 seats in the Galician Parliament.
In this case, Democracia Ourensana could also add a seat, which with these numbers would not be decisive in any case. This signature also leaves out the rest of the political formations.
This Sunday's elections are the first to be held after the general elections last July and the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, who was re-elected president in November. For this reason, the community has captured the national spotlight, since it is a first test and a thermometer to portray the current political moment, despite the singularities of Galicia.
For Alberto Núñez Feijóo's PP, it is vital to maintain the absolute majority and the government of the Xunta de Galicia that he himself headed, always with an absolute majority, during several legislatures between 2009 and 2022. Hence his involvement in the electoral campaign. On the other hand, an adverse result could leave the leader of the Popular Party in a delicate situation after winning the general elections in July but not being able to govern or gain a majority in the Congress of Deputies.
The BNG, which was already second in 2020, has awakened enthusiasm for change in the final stretch of the campaign and has called for massive participation to promote it. But according to published polls, the sum with the PSOE is not enough to govern in coalition.
The PP has controlled the Xunta without interruption since 2009. In fact, between 1989 and 2024 there has only been one legislature in which the popular party did not govern, between 2005 and 2009, with Emilio Pérez Touriño as president thanks to a coalition with the Galician Nationalist Bloc.
