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Adelante Andaluc\u00eda candidate Jose Ignacio Garcia celebrates his party\u2019s results in Jerez de la Frontera on May 17. | Roman Rios\/EPA<\/p>\nThe PP is in opposition at the national level in Spain, and polling ahead of Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s Socialist Party ahead of next year\u2019s national vote.<\/p>\n
With the PP well ahead in polls throughout the Andalusian campaign, the main question ahead of the election was whether Moreno would be able to secure his second consecutive majority in the region, the most populous in Spain.\u00a0With 99.8 percent of votes counted, the PP is on track to secure 53 seats in the 109-seat parliament, a loss of five seats.<\/p>\n
Moreno is the leading figure of the PP\u2019s moderate wing. The loss of his party\u2019s majority \u2014 albeit by a narrow margin \u2014 is a blow to those who saw his centrist politics as a potential model for the national leadership to follow into the next general election, scheduled for 2027.<\/p>\n
Adelante Andaluc\u00eda candidate Jose Ignacio Garcia celebrates his party\u2019s results in Jerez de la Frontera on May 17. | Roman Rios\/EPA<\/p>\n
Moreno had appealed to conservative and moderate Socialist voters to turn out to ensure he secured a majority, which he argued would provide the region with continued stability.\u00a0\u00a0On the campaign trail he also criticized the central government over a train accident that killed 46 people near the city of C\u00f3rdoba in January.<\/p>\n
Looking leftward, S\u00e1nchez\u2019s party also had a bad night, registering its worst-ever result in Andalusia, which used to be its biggest electoral stronghold.\u00a0It won 28 seats, down from 30 four years ago, with parties to its left performing well.<\/p>\n
Adelante Andaluc\u00eda, to the left of the Socialists, made substantial gains to win eight seats, ahead of the left-wing coalition Por Andaluc\u00eda, which registered five.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PP is in opposition at the national level in Spain, and polling ahead of Prime Minister Pedro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13184,2641,13185,826,12261,4911,205,12263,4912,13186,17,13187],"class_list":["post-25280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-cancer","tag-elections","tag-healthcare","tag-immigration","tag-negotiations","tag-parliament","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-regions-cohesion","tag-rights","tag-services","tag-spain","tag-stability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}