Spain Begins Its Turn To The Right

Spain’s opposition People’s Party won an absolute majority in Andalusia’s regional #elections on Sunday for the first time in Spanish #democracy, boosting the new Conservative leader’s odds for the national elections in late 2023.

The regional leader, Juan Manuel Moreno, won a historic victory by securing 58 seats and 43 per cent of the votes with 99.5 per cent of the votes counted.

The vicotry will allow him to govern alone, a rare situation nowadays in Spain where fragmentation and #political instability have made coalitions the most widespread form of government in the last five years.

It’s not just a victory for the PP but for all of Andalusia, Mr. #moreno told a crowd flying Spanish and Andalusian flags outside the regional PP headquarters in Seville. Today we have made history in Andalusia, he emphasised.

He said #andalusia could expect four years “of prosperity and improvement”.

Andalusia, with 8.5 million inhabitants, is the most populated region in Spain. For 40 years it was a stronghold of the main #socialist party, which ceded power in 2018 to a conservative coalition government led by the People’s Party (PP).

Some commentators said that the victory of the #conservatives in the tradionally leftist region indicated that the Spain was going to reject the ruling Left in 2023.