The PP has narrowly won the european elections in Spain. With 22 seats (34.2%), Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party is four points above and with two more seats than a PSOE that has resisted and has obtained 20 deputies (30.18%), one less than in the last elections of 2019. Thus, despite the fact that at first the polls predicted worse results for the socialist candidate, Teresa Ribera, Sánchez’s party has managed to keep its deputies in the European Parliament.

At the cost of the disappearance of Ciudadanos, the popular party has risen nine seats and still They barely get two deputies from the PSOE. The socialists have remained strong although, as in the rest of European countries, the right and the extreme right have gained more prominence to draw the line in Europe. In the case of Voxhas gone from having 4 seats to obtaining 6, thus being the third force most voted with 9.62% of the votes.

One of the novelties of these elections has been the emergence of The party is overthe party of ultra Alvise Pérez, with 3 deputies, the same as Now Republics and Add. Thus, between the PP, Vox and the ultra party The party is over, they have obtained 14 seats, 10 points higher than the left-wing bloc.

The PP spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, insisted this Sunday that “today there was a ‘yes’ to Feijóo and a ‘no’ to Sánchez and his way of doing politics.” “The Spanish censure of Sánchez has been confirmed and is unprecedented,” Gamarra said minutes after learning the results in which his party has increased 9 seats, but only has 2 deputies from the PSOE.

For his part, the popular leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has celebrated “one more victory for the PP” in a message he shared on his X account, in which he insisted that they have achieved “a deserved victory” speaking “from sincerity and honesty.”

Meanwhile, the socialist candidate, Teresa Ribera, has emphasized that if the PP has increased 9 seats and has won the elections, it is because “it has absorbed all the citizens’ deputies, which has gone to zero.”

“If Feijóo has insisted on presenting the elections as a plebiscite, he has lost the plebiscite. It is a resounding failure,” said Ribera, who insisted that it is “an identical result to the one we achieved on 23J.” At that time, in the general elections Almost a year ago, the PP was also the party with the most votes with 33.06% compared to 31.68% for the PSOE, although there the distance was only two points.

The President of the Government and socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, has congratulated the PP “for the result in these elections” and has emphasized that the PSOE “becomes the only government option capable of facing the far-right wave that is sweeping through Europe and Spain”.

Sumar wins the duel against Podemos

The block of Sumar and Podemos has fallen slightly in the 2024 European elections after their separation. Sumar has managed to enter the European Parliament with three seats, while Podemos maintains two of the six it had five years ago.

With 4.65% of the votes, Yolanda Díaz’s party has managed to enter the European Parliament for the first time with three seatsalthough it has remained halfway to the result that Podemos achieved in the 2019 elections.

And, of the six seats and 10.07% of the votes obtained five years ago, the party led by Irene Montero is left with only two representatives with 3.27% of the votes. And by communities, only in Catalonia Podemos has beaten Sumar.

The worst data is signed United Leftwho has been left out of the European Parliament by not getting the seat they expected.

The head of Sumar’s list for the European elections, Estrella Galán, insisted this Sunday on the “low participation” and acknowledged the “concern about the advance of the extreme right.” For this reason, Galán has called on the right “so that they do not let the extreme right enter the organizations.”

Junts is left with only one deputy

These have not been the only Spanish parties that have obtained representation in the European Parliament. Now Republics -made up of ERC, EH Bildu and BNG- has maintained the 3 seats it obtained in 2019 with 4.91% of the votes; Together, For its part, it has gone from having 3 deputies (2.54%) to only having one; and CEUSthe coalition formed by PNV and Canarian Coalition, has managed to maintain the only seat it obtained in 2019 with 1.61% of the votes.

Thus, the results of the European elections in Spain show a very similar x-ray to what we have in the Congress of Deputies. The sum of PSOE, Sumar and Podemos is 38.11% compared to the sum of PP, Vox and Se fin la fiesta which is 48%, 10 points higher. Furthermore, if we add the pro-independence parties in the left bloc, they would add up to 43%.