The PP wins the election in Andalusia without an absolute majority
Seville (Reuters) – the PP won Sunday the autonomous elections in Andalusia for the first time in its history but failed the absolute majority than expected, leaving the Government national conservative Mariano Rajoy without symbolic support to its austerity measures. Outcomes, on the other hand, were a fresh defeat for the PSOE against forecasts, which could continue ruling the community with the help of Izquierda Unida, a formation which doubled its number of seats in an electoral consultation where the high abstention came up to 40 percent. With the completed ballot, the PP won 50 seats in a Parliament of 109, short of the absolute majority, while the PSOE won 47 seats — nine fewer than in the previous elections – and IULV-CA rose from six to 12 members, in what has been considered a bulwark against the wave of conservative after the victories of the PP in General and municipal last year. Opinion polls had promised that the PP would achieve between 54 and 59 seats by the fatigue of the Andalusians to more than three decades in power of the Socialists, because of the high rate of unemployment – 31 percent, the highest in the country – and the corruption scandals, with several leaders charged in the so-called scandal of the ERE. The consultation was held four days before a general strike by the labor reform that...
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