The PSOE maintains the mayoralty of Alcorcón after the recount of the Electoral Board

The socialist leader in Alcorcón, Candelaria Testa, will revalidate the mayoralty for her party in this town in the south of Madrid. A result that has been ratified after the Electoral Board reviewed the city count. An exceptional circumstance that has occurred at the request of the Popular Party, whose candidate in this town, Antonio González Terol, was defeated by a difference of only 42 votes.

A result that the popular tried to reverse by asking the Electoral Board for a recount in which the 1,000 registered invalid votes were reviewed.

However, the final result once again agreed with the Socialists, leaving the former mayor of Boadilla del Monte, Antonio González Terol, without hope.

The recount, originally scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday, has been delayed until Saturday.. A circumstance that caused some nervousness among the candidates, which gradually faded as the count progressed.

In this way, the new candidate of the PSOE, Candelaria Testa, will be able to succeed her partner Natalia de Andrés, disqualified for the next five years by the Justice, considering her responsible, secondarily, for making the municipal real estate management company of alcorcon. However, to gain control of the command center, he will need the support of Ganar Alcorcón and Más Madrid.

A sea of post-election pacts

The pacts to manage to take charge of the mayoralties are the usual trend in the Community of Madrid after the last elections.

In this sense, the Popular Party (PP) is faced with the option of deciding whether to incorporate Vox into its Executives or if it prefers to govern in a minority.

This is the decision that must be made by Manuel Bautista in Móstoles, Rocío Alcántara in Alcobendas, David Conde in Valdemoro, Mariola Vargas in Collado Villalba, María José Martínez de la Fuente in Aranjuez and Carlos Blázquez in Colmenar Viejo.

Also Lucía Fernández in San Sebastián de los Reyes and Alberto Escribano in Arganda del Rey face the same dilemma. In these towns, PSOE candidates have suggested the possibility of abstaining to limit Vox's influence on local executives. An increasingly less feasible strategy considering that the PSOE of Madrid gave instructions a few hours ago to its local leaders not to facilitate the formation of right-wing governments.

The role of Vox is particularly crucial in Alcalá de Henares. Despite the fact that the PSOE won in this municipality, PP and Vox could form an absolute majority if they reach an agreement, which would allow Judith Piquet (PP) to unseat the socialist Javier Rodríguez Palacios.

In addition, there are several cities in which the PSOE has won without the right having the option of an absolute majority, and in which the Socialists could achieve a majority by incorporating partners such as Más Madrid or Podemos-IU-AV. In many of these cases, it would be government coalitions that have already existed in the previous mandate.. Everything indicates that Sara Hernández in Getafe and Ramón Jurado in Parla will be the next socialist mayors with the support of forces located to their left.

On the other hand, Rivas-Vaciamadrid and Coslada show scenarios where electoral victory does not guarantee power. Aída Castillejo (IU-Más Madrid-Equo) could retain the Mayor's Office of Rivas-Vaciamadrid with the support of the PSOE despite the fact that the PP won the elections; Similar situation in Coslada, where the PP won but Ramón Jurado (PSOE) can govern with Más Madrid and Podemos forming a tripartite alliance.

The decisive power of minority parties

Leganés and Pinto are, without a doubt, the municipalities that face the most unpredictable situations. The local parties of Unión por Leganés and Pinto Avanza are in a key position to tip the balance of the absolute majority to the right or left. Both have shown, so far, significantly heterodox positions.

In Leganés, Unión por Leganés (ULEG), the third most powerful party with three councillors, wants its candidate, Carlos Delgado, to assume the position of mayor. For this reason, he has declared that he will not support either the PP, winner of the elections with 9 councillors, or the PSOE, which has 8, but instead proposes that these parties support him to occupy the Mayor's Office.

As for Pinto, the decision rests with the two councilors of Pinto Avanza. The PP, with its 9 councillors, added to the two from Vox, totals 11, one less than the PSOE-Más Madrid-Podemos alliance. However, this bloc is also one step away from an absolute majority. As a Solomonic solution, Pinto Avanza has proposed that the PP and the PSOE alternate in the Mayor's Office for two years each, with the local party acting as “moderator”.