The latest CIS survey gives the PP a maximum of 38 seats, the minimum to have an absolute majority, while BNG gets as many as 31. Today, 2.2 million people are called to the polls.
Galicia will go to the polls on Sunday, February 18, at a meeting that will decide which president will rule the Xunta for the next four years and which has been characterized by uncertainty about the absolute majority since the start of the campaign. of which the PP has enjoyed four terms.
The latest research by the Sociological Research Center (CIS) before the elections shows a strong increase for the BNG (24-31 seats) at the expense of the PSdeG-PSOE (9-14), while the PP (34-38) remains with the same deputies, but without guaranteeing a majority.
Alfonso Rueda (PP), Ana Pontón (BNG), José Ramón Gómez Besteiro (PSOE) and Marta Lois (Sumar) They lead the main candidates who will compete for the 75 seats: 25 deputies for A Coruña; 14, by Lugo; 14, for Ourense and 22, for Pontevedra – which are at stake. Pontón is the only one to repeat in the race to preside over the Xunta.
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Pontón and Besteiro themselves have shown their willingness to form a government if the numbers allow them to dethrone Rueda’s PP. While Sumar and Vox could stay out of the Chamber.
Census of 2.6 million
More than 2.6 million people are being called to participate in the elections, and all indications are that the foreign vote (almost 18%) will be the key. As many as 2.2 million Galicians will be able to participate in today’s vote, while the rest had to do so from abroad in recent days.
The polls open at 9am and close at 8pm, after which the results will be announced as usual this evening, although they will only be final after the CERA vote has been counted. abroad.
12 elections
Galicia has held eleven regional elections since October 20, 1981, when the first was held. Since then, the community has had six presidents, the last being the popular one Alfonso Rueda that he will try to reconfirm his mandate in the twelfth elections on Sunday.
Rueda assumed the Xunta presidency in May 2022 after Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who had chaired the regional government since 2009, made the leap to state politics as leader of the PP.
The first president of the Xunta with the approved statute of autonomy was Gerardo Fernandez Alborof Alianza Popular, who was in office between 1982 and 1987.
In 1987, after a motion of censure supported by PSdG-PSOE, the Galician Coalition and the Galician Nationalist Party, the socialist Fernando González Laxewho ruled until 1990.
The December 1989 elections resulted in victory for the PP Manuel Fraga in front. Fraga remained president of the Galician Autonomous Government for four consecutive terms, with successive absolute majorities in 1993, 1997 and 2001.
There was no replacement in the Xunta presidency until 2005, when the Popular Party, despite being the first political force with an octogenarian Fraga at its head, lost the absolute majority after the June elections.
An agreement between the PSdeG and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) gave the government to the socialist Emilio Perez Tourinowho was president of the Galician government until 2009.
That year the PP regained control after its candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijooachieved a new absolute majority with 38 seats.
The leadership of Núñez Feijoo and the PP was confirmed in the October 2012 snap elections and in the September 2016 elections. In both cases, the popular party won 41 seats.
On July 12, 2020, new elections were held in Galicia, initially scheduled for April 5, but postponed due to the coronavirus crisis. The PP reaffirmed its absolute majority, led again by Núñez Feijoo, who achieved its best result with 42 deputies and 47.98% of the vote.
Source: EITB
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