Toledo is probably the only city in Spain where in any store in the center one can still buy film.. The cobbled alleys of this capital of national and international tourism live in a constant festive season in which there is neither low season nor the political hubbub of recent weeks that manages to permeate the mixture between the Mudejar and the Moorish.. But here, in the city of three cultures and a thousand legends, history continues to be written, with the right wing and its brand new coalition as new protagonists: the mayoralty will go to Carlos Velázquez after an agreement between the PP and Vox.

Toledo is the living example of the reality of pacts to which our country is opening up after the territorial 28-M and on the eve of the national 23-J. It is one of the main cities where the PP and Vox have worked against the clock to articulate a municipal government that will unseat the left before tomorrow. But the capital of Castilla-La Mancha hides more peculiarities: the right not only returns to control the city three decades later, but also puts an end to the legacy of Emiliano García-Page, mayor from 2007 to 2015, at a strategic point for the PSOE region of.

To do this, the PP has had to swim against the current and go in the opposite direction to the fundamental principle of Alberto Núñez Feijóo's electoral plan, which he promoted since he arrived in Genoa that the most voted list should always govern. In Castilla-La Mancha, the PP has found itself against the ropes in various city halls precisely because of this matter: in Toledo, Guadalajara and Talavera de la Reina, despite the PSOE having won, the sum of the PP and Vox allowed the right to reach to the power. The last request of the socialists to the popular to guarantee that the list would govern with more support – which allowed, on the contrary, to govern the right in Albacete, Ciudad Real and Puertollano in exchange for the other three cities – was rejected by the PP of Paco Núñez, who asked to continue as in other important cities to reach an agreement between the PP and Vox.

The most outstanding case is, perhaps, Elche, where both parties reached an agreement a few hours before Carlos Mazón and Carlos Flores agreed on the Government of the Generalitat to give birth to the second regional Executive of the PP-Vox clamp, after the one reached in February of 2022 in Castilla y León and that is the benchmark for those of Santiago Abascal.

There, precisely, the right has also coordinated to reach the Mayor's Office of Burgos and take over from the PSOE, which also won on 28-M, as in Valladolid by the minimum, another important capital that will now be territory of the right thanks to a pact to stop any option for the socialist Óscar Puente.

symbolic victory

But Toledo has something that the rest of the enclaves do not. The symbolic victory for both parties is striking. The PP enters firmly into one of the most entrenched points for Castilian-La Mancha socialism and nips at the root the progression of the PSOE in the city where García-Page was mayor for a decade and in which he became the man of reference in the territory for the party. In addition, it sends the opposition to the mayoress to date, Milagros Tolón, protagonist of the controversy in the last days of the lists in the region. It was added by Ferraz as number two to the Toledo Congress, which caused deep discomfort in the Castilian-La Mancha socialist ranks. Toledo is also the springboard that the territorial leaders, of both signs, have used to jump to the regional level.

For Vox Toledo it was a strategic place in management calculations for months. The province was an electoral fishing ground in the past generals and the apparatus's bet was absolute with the city. He sent there one of his main faces in Congress, Inés Cañizares, who sounded like a candidate to unseat Page in the Board, but he will end up doing it symbolically from the City Hall.