The results of May and the progress of the general election forced the parties to turn the end of one election campaign, the end of 28M, into the beginning of another, 23J. The first consequence of this fact in the Community of Valencia and the province of Alicante is: two major formations barely changed their campaign teams.
Because those at PP believed they didn’t need it: they won and brought the change (just see how the map turns blue). And socialists, because after openly admitting their loss, they know: It happened because they didn’t know how to understand the changing of the story. and as national messages go beyond industrial milestones like the Consell administration or the location of the Volkswagen gigafactory.
PP and PSOE want to impose the idea: bipartisanship is back, especially the first of both. Although the Congress of Deputies consisted of 19 formations, the PP succeeded in having the next election appointment as a referendum between Feijóo and Sánchez. Polls give Alberto Núñez Feijóo an edge, and the Prime Minister has introduced himself on public and private television to overcome his unsavory image on many voters.
PP of the Community of Valencia wants to continue the momentum of regional and municipal winning and he believes the luck is good enough to make him a repeat winner. In Alicante, they want to “go up”, the verb they are running against the clock and meaning to regain leadership in the province. Since Pedro Sánchez assumed his candidacy for head of Government, the PPs have become the second political force in Alicante. Their aim is to exclude the 32,892 votes that set them apart from the PSOE on 10 November 2019.
On the contrary, socialists focus campaign on mobilizing their voters, something important to them. The final generals won with 69% turnout. PSPV-PSOE general secretary Ximo Puig left the campaign committee on Friday, believing that rights and freedoms are at risk and that it is necessary and necessary to “return” on this ground that has been conquered by Democrats. to vote. It’s not exactly fear theory, because they admit they’re worried about the normalization of PP-Vox alliances, but it’s very close.
But, It is clear that citizens want “change” from the PP. Its purpose is to accelerate the formation of governments in autonomous regions and city councils convinced that if they govern, citizens will perceive it.
Both parties agree election campaign will be very important and prepare for fifteen days of vertigo.
Alicante in color
In the general elections, the development of the votes in the province is determined by the experiences in the 90s. Since the beginning of democracy The PSOE ruled the province until the October 1989 meeting.. During these two decades, the red belt, starting from Elche and stretching to Marina Baixa, was built with towns revolving around the highway that today leads to Madrid, as well as wide corridors to Elda and Petrer. In the south, Torrevieja became a respective fortress.
This The right did not begin to conquer the Alicante map until the end of the 80s.After leaving Alianza Popular behind, PP changed the landscape and the map was completely updated. Popular ones got over 50% votes in Vega Baja and PSOE lost the big core. Its strengths will be the small municipalities that dot the map from north to south, but this red metropolitan belt is fading.
With the arrival of the 90sstarted a struggle that continues to this day, but generally PP has always benefited more. The weight of Elche and Alicante increased, and therefore both regions, second and third in terms of population in the community, determined the final results in the province.
From the south inland, the popular continued to receive more than 50% of support and Up to Xàbia they saw a blue stripe on the shoreO. The city of Alicante, for example, experienced a balance of power as both entities acted between 40 and 45% of the vote.
Big setback for PSOE It came in 2015. For the first time since the first election date, the Socialists became the third political force in the state of Alicante. Working together with Podemos and under the acronym “És el moment”, Compromís was the second party in Congress with a margin of three seats and 12,000 votes.
The PP began in 2000 with a base of 400,000 votes, which Ciudadanos didn’t let go until his appearance on the political scene. Rivera’s party lowers the popular result In 2015, it went up to 297,083 votes. Afterwards, bipartisanship broke down and the percentage of votes was diluted. The color map of the province lost its density because it was very difficult for the big parties to get more than 50 percent of the votes.
Complementing this information are the images of the two maps, some of the latest results of the overall results visible, and only in the case of Famorca, PP exceeds 75% giving the highest density on the map. On the contrary, the PSOE has not been able to overcome this hurdle in any town in the province of Alicante. The map after July 23.
Famorca, the small big sign on the right
A fortress or an impregnable town for the Sol. This is Famoran. This small municipality with close to a hundred voters has historically been the highlight of the statesmen, since 1982 it has been among the municipalities with the highest vote share of the People’s Party.
It may seem easy because, for example, 38 people voted in the last election of 2019. Twenty-five of them went into the line-up this coming July. Alberto Núñez Feijoo.
In the percent color map where you can see the evolution of the election and which counties are or are loyal to the initials of the seagull, it is worth noting the undoubted loyal popular voters of this. municipality of l’Alcoia. For decades, it appears to be the only small population to exceed 75% of the vote.
In fact, and in another election range, the PP’s candidacy in the past local elections, Vincent Antonio Ruiz head, received 94 percent of the vote. The only formations that had a ballot in the elections were the popular ones, the remaining formations did not receive support.
Famorca is therefore a symbol in this new campaign where the two major parties guarantee that they will fight for every vote, and it is also a part of declining Spain, as its population has been steadily declining since 2000. Civil war. In the 80s it fell below 100 and has remained between 60 and 40 since the turn of the new century.