The PP wins the elections with an absolute majority of up to 143 seats in the Senate

MADRID, 24 (EUROPA PRESS) - The PP has been the clear winner in the Senate in the general elections held this Sunday, obtaining an absolute majority of 120 elected senators, which added to the 23 that it already has by regional designation, give it a comfortable advantage of 143 seats in total, while the PSOE remains in the Upper House with 92 parliamentarians (73 elected and 19 by regional designation), according to the scrutiny of 98%.

Those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo have established themselves in the Senate with a large absolute majority, registering a strong rise compared to 2019, going from 83 to 120 elected senators, which together with their 23 parliamentarians by autonomous designation allow them a wide advantage in the Upper House.

On the contrary, the PSOE has accused a significant drop compared to the 2019 elections, since it has gone from 93 senators to the 73 that it has obtained in these elections of 23J. Of course, it would be necessary to add the 19 seats that it has by autonomous designation, so it would remain in opposition in the Upper House with 92 parliamentarians.

The third force in the Upper House continues to be the coalition of ERC and Bildu (Lefts for Independence), with seven senators, which would have to be added to the four parliamentarians they already have by regional designation (3 ERC and 1 Bildu).

Those who have not achieved any of the senators elected in these Senate elections have been Sumar and Vox, which, however, do have parliamentarians by regional designation (two in the case of Santiago Abascal's party and one, Compromís).

In any case, the majority of the PP will allow him, among other things, to preside over the institution and also achieve great power in the distribution of the Board of the Chamber.

Of course, the political importance of the result in the Senate has always been relative. It does not intervene in the election of the president of the Government and it is not decisive in the elaboration of the laws: its amendments and reforms can be knocked down by Congress, which has the last word.

It is only decisive to approve the so-called spending ceiling, which it can veto and force the Government to present again, and especially to approve the application of 155 of the Constitution, as happened with Catalonia in 2017. The Government must present a project to the Senate so that it can be debated and approved by an absolute majority, or it will not be able to take measures under that constitutional article.

With these 120 senators elected in this 23J, the PP is close to the results it achieved in the 2015 elections, where they stayed close to 124 seats, while in the 2016 electoral repetition they exceeded these data and obtained 130 seats.

The 'popular' ones achieved their best result in the Senate in 2011, with 136 seats, thus exceeding the absolute majority without the need to count on the senators appointed by the autonomous communities.

In the closest elections, those of November 10, 2019, the PP reaped its worst results, with 83 senators, although it did manage to overcome the historical minimum that it obtained in the elections of April 28 of that same year, when it had 56 parliamentarians in the Upper House.

For its part, the PSOE, with these 73 seats, has come close to the results it achieved in the Senate in 2004, when it won 81 senators.

The Socialists achieved their best numbers in 1982 and 1986, with the absolute majorities of Felipe González, where in the Senate he obtained 134 and 124 senators respectively.

And he approached these numbers in 2019, in the elections that were held on April 28, before the electoral repetition. Specifically, that failed legislature, the Socialists had 121 elected senators, which made their leader Manuel Cruz preside over the institution.

With the electoral repetition, the Socialists obtained 93 elected seats, close to the numbers obtained by the Socialists in the 1993 and 2008 elections.

HOW MANY GROUPS WILL THERE BE?

After the PP, PSOE and the group of ERC and Bildu, they would be followed by the PNV, which with this percentage scrutinized, is left with four senators (plus one by regional designation). Junts would be with a parliamentarian elected in these elections, plus two others for designation, while UPN, Asociación Socialista Gomera (ASG) and Agrupación Herreña Independiente (AHI) share one each.

In this way, there are only three clear parliamentary groups, so the rest of the formations are obliged to seek different alliances in the Upper House, since at least ten senators are needed to form a group.

With 98% scrutinized, this is the result of the Senate elections, in which citizens elect 208 senators to add to those already appointed by the autonomous parliaments. In brackets, the results of 2019.