Valencians are at the polls today, eight weeks after the regional and municipal elections held on May 28, this time to vote in a general election where they will elect the 33 people who will represent the Community in Congress and the 12 who will do so in the Senate.
After an electoral campaign that has coincided with the inauguration of the Partido Popular candidate Carlos Mazón as the new president of the Generalitat, and with the formation of the new Valencian government made up with a coalition between the PP and Vox, Valencians will decide in the next few hours if they will continue to support a swing to right wing parties or if the threat of power sharing with VOX will reverse the shift and allow Sanchez to remain as Prime Minister.
A total of 3.7 million Valencians will be able to exercise their right to vote with many already having done so by mail, due to the clash of the electoral appointment with the holiday period.
The increase in population that the Valencian Community has experienced since the general elections of November 2019 will allow one more deputy to be elected on this occasion than previously: there are now 16 for the province of Valencia (one more), 12 for Alicante and 5 for Castellón, while the number of senators remains at 12 (4 per province).
In the province of Valencia, there will be 11 parties contesting the lists for Congress and 10 for the Senate ; in Alicante 9 to Congress and 7 to the Senate; and in Castellón 8 to Congress and 7 to the Senate. On this occasion there will be no Ciudadanos, a party that currently has 2 seats, nor Unides Podem, which has 4 and has moved, along with Compromís, which has 1, to the new left wing Sumar party.
Four years ago, the Socialists became the most voted for part 26 years of PP domination, although the right-wing bloc achieved an absolute majority of deputies (17 out of 32) and there was a tie for senators (6 from the PSOE and 6 from the PP).
On this occasion, Carlos Mazón’s PP comes out on top to complete the change that began with 28M and is sure to help Alberto Núñez Feijóo reach Moncloa, thanks to a new majority in which Vox hopes to be decisive and also join the Government, as has already been seen to happen in the Valencian Community.
On the left, Ximo Puig’s socialists, who improved their results on 28M but could not retain the Generalitat, are confident that they can stop the advance of the right and avoid another “shameful pact” in Spain, as they describe the PP-Vox agreement in the Consell.
After the count on Sunday night, the official scrutiny at the provincial electoral boards will take place from July 28 to 31; the proclamation of the final results will take place from August 1 to 9; and the constitutive session of the Cortes Generales of the fifteenth legislature will take place on August 17.
