The regional elections were scheduled for June next year, but Alfonso Rueda has decided to bring them forward after the Galician parliament approved the 2024 budgets.
Galicia will celebrate regional elections the next February 18as announced by the president of the Xunta, the popular Alfonso Rueda.
Rueda, who has been there since April last year replaces Alberto Núñez Fejióo at the head of the Galician government has announced the early elections – which were initially planned June 2024— after the adoption of the 2024 budgets.
“Galicia has become the first community in Spain to have its budgets approved – they were approved on Tuesday – and on January 1 they will be fully operational,” Rueda explained to the media. As he said, his aim was to “protect” Galicia economically in a year “already known to be electoral.”
Rueda has assured that he does not necessarily consider this date as an electoral advance, as the 2020 elections, although in July, were scheduled for April but had to be postponed due to the health pandemic.
It’s about the first elections in 14 years in which not participate the current leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijoo. Exactly, Rueda explained that he called him this morning to inform him of his decision “and so that he wouldn’t find out through the media.”
He also noted that, “out of respect”, Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu calledafter regional calls in both communities coincided on other occasions.
Source: EITB
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