He PP led by Alberto Núñez Feijoo has achieved a slight rise in the Basque elections this Sunday by obtaining seven seats, one more than those harvested in 2020 by the PP+Cs coalition. However, it has not managed to fulfill its objective of having the key to the region – given that PNV and PSOE once again have an absolute majority with 39 seats – nor has it taken away VOX’s seat in Álava. Although in ‘Génova’ they make a positive reading, it is a bittersweet rise because the socialists have grown two seats (they went from ten to 12) and will have the key to the Basque Government.
Specifically, with 98.56% of the vote counted, the Basque PP candidacy led by Javier de Andrés —who was a delegate of the Government in the Basque Country and Deputy General of Álava— has managed seven seats and 95,706 votes (9.22%). In July 2020, the coalition formed by PP and Ciudadanos won 6 seats and 60,550 votes (6.77%).
This is about 35,000 more votes than four years ago. This support is also far from the 133,000 ballots that Alberto Núñez Feijoo himself obtained in the general elections on July 23 of last year.
On this occasion The PP aspired to grow at least two seats and, above all, be “decisive”, so that the PNV and PSOE would need him to stay in Ajuria Enea.
However, the slight rise of the PP – which the party leadership counts as an increase of three seats when considering that in 2020 it actually got four deputies because two belonged to Cs – nor allows them to play a determining role in the new legislature that will open in the Basque Parliament.
Results that are far from Mayor Oreja’s 19 seats
In 2020the PP+Cs electoral coalition that led Carlos Iturgaiz He achieved only six seats and 60,650 votes (6.77%), almost 50,000 votes less than those obtained four years earlier by former minister Alfonso Alonso, who obtained nine representatives in the Basque Parliament and 107,711 votes (10.18%).
The PP’s best record in the Basque Country was achieved former Minister of the Interior Jaime Mayor Oreja in 2001con 19 seats and 326,933 votes (23.12%). Four years earlier, in the 1998 elections, Carlos Iturgaiz had won 16 deputies (20.14%), four more than Mayor Oreja had won in the 1994 Basque elections.
After that Mayor Oreja result in 2001, Maria San Gil It fell four seats and remained at 15 (17.4%), a downward trend that continued in the following electoral dates. Thus, in 2009, the candidate for lehendakari of the PP, Antonio Basagoitiobtained 13 votes (14.1%) and four years later, the same candidate lost three deputies, down to ten.
However, the result of the PP in those 2012 elections was key to make Patxi López lehendakari. In the next appointment with the polls in 2016, with former minister Alfonso Alonso as a candidate, the ‘popular’ fell to nine seats.
The result was worse in 2020, given that the PP+Cs coalition only achieved six deputies in the Basque Parliament, data that dates back to the nineties – in the 1990 elections Mayor Oreja obtained six deputies – and to the previous elections when It ran under the brand of Alianza Popular (in 1986 it had two deputies and in 1984, seven).