Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in meetings with their respective leaders this Monday.
The 23-Y has only just begun, and not just because of a result that won’t decide the color of the next government, but because even the seat allocation itself hasn’t been finalized yet. Scores of MPs today fear they could lose their seats in the next few hours once the call is counted Voice WAX (count of absent residents abroad) which is nothing more than the number of Spaniards living abroad – they are 2.3 million in total, 196,751 more than in 2019– and encouraged to participate in the general elections.
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The provincial electoral committees are working to determine the final results, which will already include the CERA vote Start counting this Friday. This 23-Y was the first general election where the required vote was not in effect, a voting rights modality that applied to compatriots outside our borders between 2011 and until 2022, and which meant a drop in voter turnout. In November 2019, the date of the last generals, only 226,050 applications were accepted. This is expected to be an increase that is already being observed and is accompanied by record numbers in postal voting.
The sums of the parties are not correct at this point in time. Yes, there are certainties, such as that PP and Vox will not achieve an outright majority in either scenario, and possibilities more remote from that scenario, such as the PSOE might not be able to rely on junts to secure deployment Pedro Sanchez. The Autonomous Communities of Madrid, Asturias, Cantabria, Girona, Salamanca and Málaga are the main districts, which are still disputed as at least one of their seats was narrowly won.
Asturias and Malaga have a large concentration of foreign voices, so these are areas that probably didn’t have the last word at 23-J. In Asturias, the PP won three seats, two for the PSOE, one for Sumar and one for Vox. The PSOE could wrest that third seat from the PP as there is only a 7,000 vote difference. In Malaga, the PP won five seats, the PSOE three, Vox two and Sumar one. It could give him 3,000 votes another seat from the PSOE, which it would take from the PP.
In Salamanca, where the PP and PSOE have split the four seats – three for the PP and one for the Socialists – the PSOE is aiming for one with the PP, which has 938 votes. Madrid will have 15 MEPs from the PP, 11 from the PSOE, six from Sumar and five from Vox in Congress, at least in principle: the CERA vote because it can yield 1,749 votes one more for the PP that the PSOE would lose.
Cantabria gave two seats to PP and PSOE and one seat to Vox. In this case it is Vox who can win one and take it away from the PP. The far-right party holds the seat with 428 votes. Finally Girona with two seats for PSOE and Junts and one for ERC and Sumar. There are 363 votes in this constituency another MP for Juntsthat the PP would lose.
Once voting was complete, the CERA envelopes and ballot papers were mailed, by diplomatic bag, to a dedicated office at the State Department, which was responsible for delivery to the appropriate electoral committees and counting.
Spaniards registered abroad received the documents without prior request from the provincial delegations of the Office for Electoral Census and cast their ballots in embassies and consulates until July 20, but could also cast their votes by mail until the 18th of the same month.
Another novelty of the electoral law reform is the CERA electorate They had more time to cast their vote in a ballot box compared to previous elections, with more days and both morning and afternoon hours expected.
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