A Sigma Dos survey, for the The Worldputs the president of the Junta of Extremadura and candidate of the Popular Party (PP), María Guardiola, just one deputy away from an absolute majority in the region. The polls have now closed and counting is underway.
The poll (it was not carried out at the polls) places the PP with between 30 and 32 deputies (the absolute majority is 33), with the PSOE not going beyond 16 or 18 deputies. In 2023, the socialists had more votes than the PP, but they had tied in the number of deputies – 28 for each.
O Vox will increase from the current five deputies to nine or 11 representatives, while the left-wing coalition Unidas por Extremadura would have seven or eight (improving from the current four).
The first results began to fall just before 7:30 pm in Lisbon on official websitecounting is expected to take around an hour.
Throughout the campaign, polls always gave victory to the PP, but The question was knowing how strong Vox would be. María Guardiola called early elections (the first time this has happened in this autonomous community) in search of an absolute majority, so as not to become dependent on the extreme right.
It was also expected that the PSOE, which for years was the main force in Extremadura, had the worst result ever – which, if the survey of the The Worldis confirmed. In 2023, the socialists received the most votes, but tied in number of deputies with the PP, which ended up reaching an agreement with Vox to be able to govern.