The regional elections and venues held this Sunday dyed Tenerife red. With his victory, the most normal thing would have been for the main island headquarters of the PSOE to live a great celebration, a night of revelry. But it was a sad, bittersweet triumph, without fireworks. The socialists have run out of partners to their left with whom they can form governments in many of the main administrations, especially due to the resounding failure of the different factions of this arch, which went to the polls divided. Besides, have met with resistance from Canarian Coalition –which has endured much longer than the socialists anticipated–, the conservative turn and the irruption of the extreme right of Vox.
With this panorama, the victory of the PSOE in Tenerife in three of the four elections –for the town halls, the Cabildo and the Parliament in the regional constituency– seems useless, pending the development of the pacts, which may still hold some surprises. The normal thing, however, is that the PSOE loses the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Tenerife and the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, three of the great bastions of the Canary Islands, with the probable agreement of the Canary Islands Coalition-Popular Party, to which the Gomera Socialist Association and AHI would be added to the regional Executive.
a languid joy
Hence this languid joy within the party of the rose. because those of Angel Victor Torres and Peter Martin, leaders at the regional and insular level, clearly won in Tenerife, starting with the municipal elections. They won 187 councilors -35 more than the CC and 107 more than the PP- and 121,256 votes -16,850 more than the CC and 65,898 more than the PP-, although they will not be able to get the whole party out of them because they lack colleagues with ideological affinities with the what to send together
The Tenerife socialists maintain impregnable squares, where they clearly control, especially in the south of the Island. There are the absolute majorities achieved on Sunday in Adeje, Candelaria, Fasnia and Vilaflor. Or the important endorsements, very close to the absolute majority, in municipalities like Puerto de la Cruz. In the elections to the City Council of La Laguna they also reaped very good results with Luis Yeray Gutierrez: the force with the most votes with 10 councilors, three more than in the local elections of 2019, after which they were already able to access the Mayor’s Office thanks to a pact with Unidas se Puede and the missing Avante de Santiago Pérez.
Reissue the progressive pact in the City of the Advanced, however, this time it will not be so simple. The PSOE would achieve a majority of the left with Unidas Podemos (2 councilors) and the Drago de alberto rodriguez (two other councilors) but it is still unknown what the formation of the tree is willing to do. Nor would it be easy for Luis Yeray Gutiérrez to govern on an Island where it is very possible that the Canarian Government and the Tenerife Cabildo are no longer in the hands of his party.
wishes and some surveys They foreshadowed a disaster in the Canary Coalition in the socialist ranks. Nothing is further from reality. The nationalists resist and even prevailed over the PSOE in one of the four elections on Sunday in which the people of Tenerife participated: the insular circumscription of the autonomous elections, with Ana Oramasformer mayor of La Laguna and former national deputy as number 1. In this vote, CC achieved 118,298 support, 14,655 more than the reds and 49,313 more than the popular ones.
Coalition endures the type
The coalition members lost on Sunday in fiefdoms that used to be theirs, mainly the two most populated cities on the island –Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Laguna– and the Cabildo. They did so, however, by a short margin – in the Cabildo by one counselor and 5,069 votes; in the capital by one mayor and 1,113 votes and in Aguere, by two mayors and 3,779 votes– and maintaining serious options to reach government agreements, especially in the Cabildo and the chicharrero municipality, where a bipartisan CC-PP is taken for granted. .
Part of the blame lies with the fall into a spiral – this time – from the left to the left in Tenerife, with a Podemos and its different alliances weighed down by the division in the form of Drago’s interference. The data is eloquent. One of the clearest examples is that of the Cabildo de Tenerife. Unidas Sí Podemos (17,819 votes) and the newcomer Drago (16,964) did not get a single director, but if they had gone together they would have surpassed the surprising Vox with 34,793 votes and at least two directors.
Another example is Santa Cruz, where Podemos-IU-Equo went from 9,300 votes and three councilors in 2019 to 4,054 votes and zero councilors last Sunday. If this confluence had gone with Drago, both would have achieved more than 7,200 votes, very close to the 7,873 support and three councilors achieved in these last elections by the extreme right, which enters the chicharrero City Hall for the first time.
The irruption of Vox
Vox starred in the other great headline of the day. He entered the main administrations of the Islands for the first time, such as the Parliament of the Canary Islands (4 deputies), the Cabildo de Tenerife (2 councilors) or the municipalities of Santa Cruz (3 councilors) and La Laguna (2 councilors), without having campaigned or hardly have a presence in the electoral campaign. In the Tenerife Island Corporation, it went from 8,542 votes in 2019, which did not entitle him to any director, to 27,976 this Sunday, which grants him two representatives in the island plenary session. He has very few options to enter into the government agreements but his results denote a rise of the extreme right in Tenerife already predicted by some pre-election polls.
Results of the 28M elections in the Canary Islands
Remember that the May 28 You can consult in La Provincia the results of the regional elections, council elections and municipal elections in Canaries 2023:
