Spanish state
Saturday 8 May 2021, by Raul Camargo
The Partido Popular (PP) led by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, one of the leaders of the party’s right wing, easily won the elections held on 4 May 2021 in the Community of Madrid. The party now has 65 deputies as opposed to 30 previously and will be able to rule the region alone with support when needed from the far right Vox party. It was a bad day for all left-wing people, who have suffered from the corruption and Trumpism of this radical right. Its infamous management of the pandemic worked to its benefit because it linked the open-door policy of hospitality and other activities with the concept of freedom. This allowed it to regroup much of the right-wing electorate but also mobilize traditional, low-politicized abstentionists.
Madrid elections: the right wing wins in the best ‘Trumpist’ style
This post is also available in: Spanish From left to right, United We Can, More Madrid, PSOE, PP and VOX (Image by Menachem Beguín)
The most conservative right together with the extreme right -Partido Popular plus VOX- gets 78 deputies, compared to the 58 who have added between Mas Madrid, PSOE and Unidas Podemos.
The most conservative right won in the best Trumpist and network trolls style, with a speech full of lies, insults and empty of content. And all this, in the name of freedom. Meanwhile, the left has reacted in a somewhat varied way, but without finding the key that will connect with the electorate, except -maybe- Mas Madrid.
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The centre-right Popular Party (PP) won the elections of the Autonomous Community of Madrid with 65 seats, more than doubling the seats it won in the 2019 elections.Falling short of an absolute majority, the PP s candidate and Madrid s Regional .
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Madrid, May 4 (EFE).- Spain’s conservative Popular Party (PP), which has governed the Community of Madrid since 1995, strengthened its grip on power in regional elections on Tuesday, winning 65 seats, more than double the number it secured in the 2019 elections and just four fewer than an absolute majority of 69.
Meanwhile, with 99 percent of the ballots counted, the Socialist Party (PSOE), the winner of the 2019 elections, lost 13 seats and will now have 24, tied with another leftist group, Mas Madrid, which exceeded the PSOE in numbers of actual votes.
The voting was held after a tough election campaign in which significant polarization was seen between the right and the left political blocs.