The right-wing People’s Party (PP) emerged as the winner of Sunday’s snap regional elections in Aragón, but lost two seats compared with the 2023 vote and will be even more dependent on the far-right Vox party, which doubled its number of seats.
Chunta Aragonesista has also doubled its number of seats. Meanwhile, the socialist party (PSOE) slumped to its worst result on record.
The Teruel Existe–Aragón Existe coalition lost one seat; and the United Left–Sumar group (IU–Sumar) managed to hold on to its single seat. By contrast, Podemos–Alianza Verde (Podemos-AV) and the Aragonese Party (PAR) have been wiped out of the regional parliament.
Once again, Aragón’s political history has repeated itself: no party has ever won an absolute majority in the region since the return of democracy after the Franco regime. The regional parliament will remain highly fragmented, although only six parties have secured representation in this legislature, compared with eight in the previous one.
In 2023, the PP had won 28 seats and came to power thanks to the support of Vox‘s 7 seats, but as in other regions, the far-right party also broke the alliance due to policy differences, leaving the autonomous community without a budget.
One of the most striking aspects of Sunday’s election was the higher voter turnout compared with the last regional vote. Turnout reached 67.56%, up 1.02% points on 2023, despite the fact that voters were choosing only their regional representatives this time, rather than also electing local mayors as they did before. This is the first time Aragón has held stand-alone regional elections.
Up to 1,036,325 Aragonese citizens were eligible to vote in the elections for 67 regional MPs. An absolute majority, therefore, required 34 seats.
With 98.46% of the vote counted, the PP secured 26 seats, down from the 28 it won in 2023.
This leaves the party well short of the 34 seats required for an absolute majority to re-elect its candidate, Jorge Azcón, as regional president. As a result, he will once again depend on Vox – despite having called early elections precisely in an attempt to break away from the far-right party, with which the PP governed in coalition during the first year of the previous term. ALSO READ: Spain’s Aragón becomes 4th region to be jointly governed by PP & far-right Vox.
The clear winners of the election were Vox and Chunta Aragonesista, both of which significantly improved their results by doubling their number of seats. As in Extremadura, the far-right party led by Santiago Abascal saw a sharp surge, winning 14 seats compared with seven in 2023. ALSO READ: PP wins in Extremadura, but will have to depend on Vox to govern, as PSOE collapses.
Vox’s regional candidate, Alejandro Nolasco, said the results showed that ‘common sense has won’ and that voters had rejected ‘the fraud of bipartisan politics’.
He argued that the outcome demonstrated that ‘Aragón wants twice as much Vox’, adding that voters had backed ‘security, the countryside, young people’s access to housing, and a renewed sense of hope’.
Vox’s rise to 14 seats makes it decisive in any PP-led government.
Chunta Aragonesista, meanwhile, increased its representation from three seats to six. Its candidate, Jorge Pueyo, welcomed what he described as a ‘good result’ for his party, claiming it was the ‘only’ force to withstand ‘the rise of the far right’. However, he also lamented the PP’s victory and Vox’s surge, calling the overall outcome ‘bad’ for Aragón.
Once again echoing results in Extremadura, the PSOE – led by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez at a national level – emerged as one of the main losers. The party recorded its worst-ever result in Aragón, winning 18 seats -down from 23 two and a half years ago and matching its low point from 2015.
Its candidate, former cabinet minister Pilar Alegría, acknowledged that it was ‘not a good result’ and criticised the PP for becoming ‘even more hostage to the far right’.
Teruel Existe–Aragón Existe lost one seat and now holds two, while IU–Sumar managed to survive, retaining its single seat.
Also among the losers were the Aragonese Party (PAR) and Podemos-AV, both of which have lost their sole seats and will no longer be represented in the regional parliament.
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