The abstention of Junts will not be worth it for Pedro Sánchez for the investiture or to get the PSOE the presidency of Congress in Madrid by a wide margin. He is a key deputy because the sum of PP and Vox places the right-wing bloc at 172 compared to 171 on the left. A situation that further strengthens the position of Puigdemont’s party which, with its seven deputies, stands as the undisputed arbitrator of the chamber.
The recount of the vote of Spaniards abroad, which began to be carried out today in the 354 zone boards distributed throughout Spain, has not caused, for the moment, any change in the composition of the Cortes Generales that cast the ballot boxes last Sunday .
Despite the fact that it is impossible for the inclusion of these ballot papers to significantly change the results, the truth is that the loss of a seat in the investiture bloc in favor of the right-wing party would be very important because it would force Junts to vote for favor of the progressive candidate for the presidency of the Congress of Deputies (without the possibility of abstaining or voting for himself) and to give his express ‘yes’ to Pedro Sánchez in a hypothetical investiture to avoid a repetition of elections.
After the recount in close to half of the constituencies, Madrid is emerging as the only possibility for the PP to win a seat for the right-wing bloc (taking it from the PSOE), after in other disputed places, particularly Girona where the popular ones had placed many of their hopes, the accounting of the 233,688 validated ballots for this 23-J of the Census of Absent Resident Spaniards (CERA) has not moved a single seat.
The recount in Madrid, according to electoral sources, is being particularly slow, to the point that at this time it is not ruled out that it could last until Saturday. In Madrid, where there are 46,394 CERA votes, the PP fell 0.05 points (1,748 votes) away from taking the last seat from the PSOE. If the PP were to take the seat from the PSOE in Madrid, Carlos García Adanero would enter and Javier Rodríguez Palacios would leave.
In Girona, the constituency in all of Spain where it was easier for the PP to win a seat by ‘stealing’ it from the formation of Carles Puigdemont, the independentistas finally retained the seat by only 253 votes. In the Catalan province, the independentistas garnered 335 votes while the PP stayed at 277.
insufficient comeback
Another of the key constituencies in this CERA count was Tarragona, where the Socialists were only 1,298 votes away from snatching a seat from Junts. In the end, the comeback of Pedro Sánchez’s men was not enough: 658 in favor of the PSOE compared to the 200 obtained by Junts. If they had ‘stolen’ this seat, the Socialists would have lessened the party’s dependence on Puigdemont somewhat, especially in the event that the right wing snatched a seat from the rival bloc.
The recount in Cantabria of the 3,442 votes from abroad is being quite bumpy. In this community, where Vox has only 428 votes ahead of the PP, some boxes with CERA ballots arrived fifteen minutes after the count began. At first, the provincial Electoral Board decided that they would not be counted, but after an appeal, they will all be counted. Finally, in any case, the popular did not obtain for itself the seat that was disputed with the party of Santiago Abascal.
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