Extremadura will have for the first time a woman president of the autonomous government. Historic turnaround in Extremadura as in 2011, when the PSOE lost for the first time in Extremadura. And history repeated itself, with all possible surprise, even more unexpected than twelve years ago.. If Zapatero took Fernández Vara ahead in Monago's historic victory in that legislature, history repeated itself last night, because although María Guardiola, the new PP candidate who took over the party less than a year ago, did not win by number of votes, it did break with all the forecasts, tied in the number of deputies and fell less than one point (39.83% of votes for the PSOE and 38.92% for the PP). Nobody expected it. But Vara's attachment to Sánchez and the drowning of his project that was transmitted throughout the legislature took him away. Extremadura voted, for the minimum, but voted change. And in a region that has always been a barn of votes for socialism, that is to say a lot.
Guardiola, who announced throughout the campaign that he would not agree with Vox, is now forced to do so if he wants to govern, another thing is that a coalition government is formed, that remains to be seen. Euphoric, at one in the morning, she appeared, euphoric, before the media: “Long live Extremadura”, began her speech. “We have made it happen and I feel enormous gratitude and responsibility and I will always carry this moment in my heart,” he added.. But he made it clear: “I have no vertigo or fear.”
The future president of Extremadura was a PP councilor in Cáceres during the legislature that ended yesterday and in the Monago government on the Junta she held various management positions.
In number of votes the Socialists won, by just over 4,000 votes, but there was a tie in the number of deputies (28), which allows María Guardiola to join Vox (five deputies), which enters the parliamentary arc for the first time. Podemos, which kept all four, was not decisive in keeping Vara in the regional government, as all the forecasts indicated.
The candidate for the presidency of the Junta de Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara. . Morales EFE
After acknowledging the results, Fernández Vara hinted that he will leave politics and will not be in the opposition, a matter that he already confirmed last Friday on the last day of the electoral campaign.. He would only continue if he won, and he crashed, with the worst result in his history.
Nobody calculated the resounding fall of Fernández Vara, who faced the commissions with a comfortable absolute majority (34 deputies, one more) and lost no less than six deputies. However, Vara has been the baron who has supported Pedro Sánchez the most throughout this legislature and has paid for it at the polls with the worst results in history, because in 2011 he was left with 30. Now, even, two less.
In Extremadura the emotion was maintained until practically the last vote. In fact, throughout the night the result remained even, dancing one deputy up or down for both parties, and for the blocks. Vox, who was not in the Assembly of Extremadura, burst in with five deputies while María Guardiola took all the votes of Deputies and also obtained the transfer of at least one from the Socialists. Ángel Pelayo assured that we have fulfilled our objective: “Liberate Extremadura from socialism and communism.”
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Regarding the large cities in this region, the PP recovers Badajoz with the Ciudadanos candidate, Ignacio Grajera, with an absolute majority (14 deputies -44.5% of votes) compared to 10 for the PP), and also in Cáceres, with Rafael Mateos (11 deputies), although here he would need the support of Vox while the Socialists retain the absolute majority in Mérida (14 deputies and a renewed absolute majority). In Cáceres, the current socialist mayor, Luis Salaya (10 councilors) resigned tonight. In Plasencia, the popular Fernando Pizarro achieved his fourth consecutive absolute majority.
It is also important to point out that the PSOE in Don Benito has lost its absolute majority in a city divided by the merger process with Villanueva de la Serena, where the Socialists have managed to succeed easily, but the irruption in the first town of the two that they plan to merge from a party that has emerged from civil society, Siempre Don Benito, and that was against the ways in which the merger process was carried out, in a very important way, with 7 councilors, being the second option.. So to save the Mayor's Office, the socialist José Luis Quintana, who has lost five councillors, should agree with the PP, with five councillors, although everything remains up in the air.
In Alburquerque (Badajoz), with a bankrupt city council, the independent party IPAL obtained an absolute majority and its former mayor, Manuel Gutiérrez, regains the municipal seat after resigning a few months ago.