The municipalities of Malaga province look set for deals and pacts after last Sunday elections in which the Popular Party (PP) saw its vote share drop significantly, and new parties destabilised the two-party system. Across the region the PP’s vote share dropped from 46% to 35% and it lost 50 councillors, while the Socialist Party (PSOE) gained just four thousand votes more than in 2011.
But one place which bucked the regional trend was Estepona, where José María García Urbano secured another overall majority and increased the PP’s share of the vote.
Estepona citizens wanted to reward with their votes the management of José María García Urbano, who renews his mandate for four more years with an absolute majority that will allow him a peaceful government and without covenants. In 2011, after several years of political turbulences and corruption scandals, Garcia Urbano came to the City Hall after winning with a 48.93% of the total votes. Four years later he gets even better results, to have a 59.67% of the vote in a city which, as most of the citizens say: has changed for good.
On the national scene, the two traditional parties fell short of overall majorities in most areas. They both lost a significant number of votes to emerging groups Ciudadanos and Podemos.
As expected, in the wake of the economic crisis and high-profile corruption scandals which have tarnished the reputation of the traditional political parties in Spain, the country has now entered a new political era. Spain is unfamiliar with governing coalitions as the PP and the Socialists have dominated for decades, so the next months before the general elections will be good to see how the traditional parties are positioned.
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