Nationally, I pretty much nailed it.
I said in Business over Tapas last Thursday: 'Who will win on Sunday? BoT says that Pedro Sánchez will be the next president, with the support of Unidas Podemos (and possibly the ERC and a couple of other tiddlers). Ciudadanos will continue to grow, and the PP will stumble badly. Other groups with seats in the next parliament will be Vox (doing better than expected) and maybe even Pacma'.
The results are now in, with the PSOE at 123 seats (up from 85 in 2016) , the PP tanking at 66 (from 137). Ciudadanos took 57 and Unidas Podemos just 42. Vox is at 24 seats. The rest of the board went to regional parties, with the Catalonian ERC republican izquierda taking 15. PACMA, we are relieved to report (and to coin a phrase), lost its deposit.
The evident probability is that the PSOE will pact with Podemos and the ERC, with the other regional groups abstaining. You need 175 seats for a majority.
In the Senate, the PSOE took a majority 122 out of the 208 seats (the PP took 54).
Mojácar's vote in the General Elections are a bit away from the national average, with the PP the largest party at 661 votes cast, the PSOE not far behind at 619 votes, the C's in third place at 338, the Vox Party next at 312 (that's 312 people who hate foreigners), Podemos at 219 and the comical Pacma chaps (Bizcocho for President) at 14.
Vox was barely around in the elections three years ago (it got 4 votes in Mojácar), where the PP got 946 votes. If you add the PP and the Vox from Sunday, you get the same score as the PP took in 2016. Now, in the local elections next month, and Follow Me Closely Here, there's no Vox candidate.
While there were 65 parties, only ten of them were available in the voting station I went to in a pueblo close to Almería City. Being a foreigner, Io can't vote (bit, I'd still rather be a foreigner).
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