The european elections result, at the national level, in a victory of the PP by the minimum, two seats and four points from the PSOE. A result with which Alberto Núñez Feijóowho had presented this quote as a duel against Pedro Sánchezconsiders it won: he sees in this electoral result the opening of “a new political cycle” and the prelude to a change of Government in Spain.

“Not only we are going to win the general elections“but we are going to govern after the next general elections,” he proclaimed on election night. For the socialists, however, these same results make Feijóo a loser of the “plebiscite” which he himself proposed.

The truth is in Genoa they are happy with those four points of advantage that they take away from the socialists. ‘Popular’ sources point out that last year Pedro Sánchez called early elections with an even smaller margin in the municipal elections and they also claim that this is his biggest victory in a European election in 25 years. At the same time, they emphasize that on June 23 they were short four seats to allow a solo Feijóo government and maintain that today there would be no alternative investiture to theirs.

An idea that the party spokesperson has delved into, Borja Semperthis Monday after the meeting of the Management Committee, in an appearance in which has challenged Sánchez to call early elections, asserting that “we are not only facing an exhausted legislature”, but “at the end of the cycle.” “The time of the PSOE is over and that of Pedro Sánchez too. It’s in discount time and both he and his politics have been sentenced,” he stated.

“Pedro Sánchez’s departure is simmering. The president, even if he resists, will fall,” said the ‘popular’ spokesperson, who, when asked about the possibility of raising a motion of censure, stated that “the reality is that the Spanish have already censored Pedro Sánchez“Thus, the PP avoids speaking directly, as it did during the campaign, about raising a motion of censure and asks the PSOE to be the ones to hold general elections. The PP believes that the motion of censure has been raised by the PP themselves. voters in the European elections.

The ‘popular’ speak of an “unappealable” victory

And although the election results are far from initial expectations of the PP – to whom the polls gave up to 10 points of advantage – allow Feijóo to save the furniture, because avoid the dreaded tie of which regional barons warned.

In this sense, its spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Telladodescribed this Monday the electoral result as “unappealable“, “as much as the PSOE has now taken it upon itself to celebrate defeats,” as he said. “We are satisfied with the result,” he insisted, boasting that “the PP has been winning all the elections since Feijóo’s arrival, while that “Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE only loses.”

The general secretary of the party, Cuca Gamarrahas even spoken of Sánchez’s electoral “setback” and he has said that, although “it is difficult for him to accept it”, his departure from the Government “is closer.” “The reading is clear: Pedro Sánchez finds it difficult to accept it, but His departure from the Government of Spain is getting closer and closer… the stew is already on the fire,” he ironized.

The candidate herself, Dolors Montserratwho remained in the background during the campaign, has maintained that the PSOE “is weaker than ever” and that Sánchez should call elections, while the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayusospeaks directly of “Feijóo’s unmitigated victory over a devastated Sánchez“.

The PP grows at the expense of Cs while the ultras rise

Feijóo’s PP has obtained 22 MEPs and 34.2% of the vote, four points ahead of the socialists, a greater advantage than the one achieved in the general elections, when the ‘popular’ were 1.38 points higher. However, the PSOE has managed to retain 20 seats in the European Parliament, one less than in 2019, despite the investigation into Begoña Gómez or the amnesty.

In these elections, the PP, which started with 13 seats, has taken its eight parliamentarians from Ciudadanos and has also added one more MEP. He has won in almost the entire country, except in Euskadi, Navarra, Catalonia and the Canary Islands, and has gained up to 10 points from the PSOE in Castilla-La Mancha, where Emiliano García-Page has been the critical voice of the PSOE against the amnesty.

However, to his right, the ultras are reinforced: Vox has grown by two MEPs, reaching six, and a new actor has also emerged, ‘The party is over’, by far-right agitator Alvise Pérez. A division of the vote that is detrimental to the PP in the face of general elections, in which, unlike in the European elections, voting is not carried out on a single constituency.

The plebiscitary framework proposed by himself implied an examination of Feijóo’s leadership, which his team considers surpassed because with him at the helm the PP has won municipal, general and European elections. However, the PSOE continues to hold on and, after the electoral cycle, the ‘popular’ leader continues in the opposition.

Now, after a campaign in which even opened the door to presenting a motion of censure against Sánchez, it is worth wondering if the PP will deepen this idea or tone it down, given that it continues to retain the option of taking the President of the Government before the Senate investigation commission.