The president of the Xunta has called elections for April 5 next year, after Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu did the same.
The president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, confirmed on Monday that the Galician elections will be brought forward and will be held on April 5, although he has left his candidacy for re-election up in the air, a decision he will announce tomorrow at 12:30 pm. hours in a game act.
Following this afternoon’s announcement by the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, the Galician President has called the media “immediate”, as he said at a ceremony in Mazaricos (A Coruña) in the morning, and announced the decision to bring forward the regional elections , initially planned for the fall.
The aim of this progress, he said, is “to shorten as much as possible the election period from six or seven months to 54 days and to preserve as much as possible the institutional and social stability that has characterized Galicia over the past eleven years”. he said.
In this way, Basques and Galicians will vote at the same time for the fourth consecutive election, after collapsing in 2009, 2012 and 2016, although Núñez Feijóo has insisted that the decision was made “considering what is best for Galicia”.
He has admitted that he has spoken with the Lehendakari about the election date, although he has rejected that he has acted on his decision and has also stated that in his position to bring the elections forward, the Catalan situation, with an appeal also this year to determine, not It has affected.
Source: EITB
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