“If anyone was hoping for some electoral advance, let them abandon all hope because we have a progressive government for a while.” Thus the PSOE has ruled out an advance of the general elections because it considers that Their results in the European elections (20 seats, one less than in 2019 and two less than the PP and a difference of 700,000 votes) will allow Pedro Sánchez to continue governing. However, expectations in the final days of the campaign were higher and there was talk of a comeback. Finally, the PSOE has only been supported by Catalonia, the Canary Islands, Navarra and a part of Euskadi.

Despite not getting the comeback and the victory of the PP, the socialists are “relieved“Hence, his spokesperson Esther Peña has ruled out an electoral advance this Monday in an interview on Antena 2. She has indicated that they are not considering it “in no case” and that they have no doubts about it. Later, in the press conference after the Federal Executive in Ferraz, Peña insisted on these same words, ensuring that they “do not consider” “nor value” an electoral advance.

“Without a doubt, no. In no case”, the socialist leader has settled when asked if they are considering calling general elections as PP and Vox demand. According to the analysis of the PSOE spokesperson, the results mark “a very similar story” to that of the general elections a year ago, and if the elections were repeated today to renew the Cortes Generales “the Socialist Party would continue to govern and the Popular Party would still be the leader of the opposition.

The socialist spokesperson has assured that her party “I would have liked to win“the European elections, but has argued that they maintain “solid support.” They maintain that it is the Government party that has had the “best result” in these elections. “We want more and we will work. The objective of the PSOE was to win the elections and we were two seats away. The PP wanted to overthrow the PSOE and has not succeeded,” he defended.

“The extreme right has three heads”

According to Peña, “Feijóo’s cost has been high for setting fire to the streets and assuming the discourse of the extreme right.” “Today there are three: Feijóo, Abascal and Alvise. The alternative to the Government of Spain is the extreme right“, he stressed, asking “if it was worth it.” The socialist has harshly attacked the ‘popular’ of whom he says that he arrived as a “moderate” and has become “a self-confessed populist”: “Let him stop his strategy of bread for today and hunger tomorrow. “It’s not fair to do it at any price.”

The spokesperson has assured that “many people continue to believe in the PSOE.” “We are not intimidated and we are going to continue standing up to stop the far-right national movement. Spain is the island and The extreme right has three heads – they include the PP in the equation -“, the socialist leader has maintained. And she shows off: “We are the Government that best resists in Europe and the party is capable of stopping the three-headed dragon.”

“The best recipe to put an end to the extreme right is to govern. This has backfired on Feijóo. He proposed a plebiscite and has not achieved it. And we are a reference in Europe and we are a reference in Europe. He has made our policies have more focus,” Peña stressed.

Catalonia pending, but they want to close the electoral cycle

Nor are they considering an advance in Catalonia. The victory in Catalonia of the PSC in the European elections together with the setback of Junts reinforce the position of the socialist Salvador Illa in the still uncertain race for the investiture of the next president of the Generalitat. However, this raises more doubts about the central government since it depends on the independentistas to finish the legislature. Therefore, many ask, what now? How are they going to move laws and initiatives forward?

Meanwhile, the socialists hold their breath in key hours for the PSC due to the specter of early elections. Everything indicates that if there is no agreement in Catalonia, everything could trigger an early call for elections. However, Ferraz sources have assured that “there is a feeling of relief”, although they recognize who were confident in matching due to their internal data. Of course, they believe that “they have saved the furniture“.

These sources argue that Sánchez has resisted with 30% of the votes and because PSOE is the government party that has had the best results in Europe after the debacle of many socialist formations. Some furniture that saves, again, thanks to Catalonia with a “fantastic” result from the PSC, but they are worried about Andalusia, a traditional fiefdom of the PSOE. These sources assure that they “have stayed closer to their objective than the PP.”

“The PSOE is missing two seats. The PP wanted to overthrow Sánchez and is far from achieving it,” they recall, which is why they insist that “there will be no electoral advance” and “there are three years left in the Government.” The truth is that Sánchez was in Ferraz last night for “a good time” with his people and they point out that his biggest concern is “how the extreme right has turned out.” Likewise, they assure that many social democratic leaders They have called Sánchez to congratulate him.

And now after the last elections, the PSOE wants to abandon the eternal campaign and they assure that it is time to return to work, to govern. Esther Peña, after the electoral carousel, assures that a stage of stability is finally beginning. But theirs have a fundamental challenge ahead of them: obtain the support to move the extended Budgets forward. “We have three years ahead of us to continue working with citizens and achieve growth,” he says.

The PSOE spokesperson assured this Monday that “closes the electoral cycle”: “This is what happened last night. A time is opening in which it is time to return to normality and for this Government to continue legislating,” said the socialist spokesperson. And she winked at the PP: “If anyone was expecting some electoral advance, let them abandon all hope because we have a progressive Government for a while”.

The PSOE only wins in Catalonia, the Canary Islands and Navarra

So the socialists breathe a sigh of relief thanks to some parts of the country, especially in the north. However, Andalusia, which a few years ago was its historical fiefdom, has punished the socialists and has rewarded the ‘popular’, where they have swept. In fact, the PP has been the leading force in much of the country and the PSOE has only managed to be so in only three communities: CAtaluña, the Canary Islands and Navarra, as well as in two of the three provinces of Euskadi (Bizkaia and Álava).

The result in Catalonia has been decisive for the PSOE has remained above 30% of votes. And the game has been won by the PSC, which is once again the leading force in the European elections in Catalonia 15 years later: if on May 12 it won with 27.96% of the votes, a month later it has once again won the elections. ballot boxes, now with a higher percentage. Once again, the PSC has been the great support of the socialists, with support of 30.63% compared to 13.77% for the winning party of the night.

Those of Pedro Sánchez too They have won the European elections in the Canary Islands, with 30.46% of the votes, closely followed by the PP with 29.27%, with Vox in third place with 12.01% and Canary Coalition fourth, with 10.09%. However, the PSOE has lost 1.5 points compared to its results in the 2019 European elections, while the PP gains almost 13.5 points.

It has also been the most voted force in Navarra with 28.79% of the total. With 2,000 fewer votes, the PP follows, with 72,856, 28.02%. In Euskadi, the socialists have surpassed the PNV and have come very close to winning in Euskadi. The difference between EH Bildu and the PSE-EE has been barely 0.32% and of less than 3,000 votes: the first have added 227,911 ballots and the second 225,084. Thus, the PSE-EE has clearly improved its results from five years ago by obtaining 25.92% of the votes, 6.95% more than five years ago.

While in his main granero, Andalusia, the PP has obtained a greater differential than in the rest of the country. The ‘popular’ have obtained a historic victory in this community, reaching 37.85% of the votes and surpassing the PSOE by 5.7 points.