General election in the Community of Madrid in 2021
The general election in the Autonomous Community of Madrid 2021 took place on Tuesday 4th May 2021 to elect the members of the Asamblea de Madrid in the Autonomous Community of Madrid for their XII. To choose legislative period.
All 136 seats in the assembly were up for election. It was an early election.
Electoral system
The Madrid Assembly is the dedicated, unicameral legislature of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, with legislative power in regional matters within the meaning of the Spanish Constitution and the Madrid Statute of Autonomy, as well as the possibility of trusting or withdrawing a President of the Community. In addition, Madrilenians abroad must request a vote before they can vote, a system known as “begging” or expat voting (Spanish: voto rogado ).
All members of the Madrid Assembly are elected according to the D'Hondt procedure and a closed list ratio, whereby the threshold of 5 percent of the valid votes - including the empty votes - is applied regionally. Parties that do not reach the threshold will not be taken into account in the allocation of seats. The assembly is entitled to one member for every 50,000 inhabitants or a fraction of more than 25,000 inhabitants.
The electoral law provides that parties, associations, coalitions and groups of voters can submit lists of candidates. The associations of voters are, however, obliged to secure the signature of at least 0.5 percent of the voters registered in the Community of Madrid. Voters are prohibited from signing for more than one list of candidates. At the same time, parties and associations that intend to form a coalition in order to jointly take part in an election are obliged to inform the responsible electoral commission within ten days of the convening of the election.
Starting position
Since the 2019 elections , the region has been ruled by a coalition of PP and Ciudadanos, with the tolerance of the right-wing extremist party Vox .
In March 2021, Ciudadanos terminated a coalition that also existed with the PP in the Murcia region and supported a motion of censure against the PP Prime Minister there. In order to forestall a similar maneuver in Madrid, the Prime Minister of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso , dissolved the regional parliament on March 10, 2021 and scheduled new elections for May 4, 2021.
Election campaign
The main topic in terms of content was the different approaches to the Corona protective measures policy between the Madrid regional government and the Spanish state government. The Partido Popular steered a much more slack course with as few restrictions as possible for the population. For example, theaters, cinemas, street cafes and the interiors of the restaurants have been open again since summer 2020. With 180 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the capital region is the state with the third highest 7-day incidence in all of Spain.
The election campaign was otherwise extremely heated. While the PP, which has ruled Madrid for 25 years, advertised with slogans such as “Freedom or Socialism” (also “Freedom or Communism”), the left-wing bloc addressed the increasing rapprochement between conservatives and right-wing extremists. The choice between PP and Vox and everyone else is a choice between “fascism and democracy”. Observers saw the PP and Vox as the most likely next government coalition, either as before a PP government under the toleration of Vox or even as an official coalition.
In a debate on the radio broadcaster Cadena SER , the representatives of the three left-wing parties did not leave the event after the Vox candidate Rocío Monasterio had been threatened by death threats against various left-wing politicians - among others, Podemos top candidate Pablo Iglesias Turrión received cartridges in the mail distanced. Isabel Díaz Ayuso , incumbent president of the regional government and top candidate of the PP, did not even appear at the radio round after being invited.
As a result, the polls turned massively in favor of the PP at the expense of all other parties. Even Vox, seen with values of up to 20 percent in the meantime, fell back into single-mindedness. As a result, Vox attracted increasing attention with racist and xenophobic election advertising.
Survey
Election forecasts
The polls predicted a clear victory for the PP with more than 40 percent of the vote. A parliamentary majority for the PP together with Vox was considered certain.
course
Result
| Political party | voices | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | |||
| Partido Popular (PP) | 1,620,213 | 44.73 | 22.50 | 65 | 35 | ||
| Más Madrid (Ḿ) | 614.660 | 16.97 | 2.28 | 24 | 4 | ||
| Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) | 610.190 | 16.85 | 10.46 | 24 | 13 | ||
| Vox (Vox) | 330,660 | 9.13 | 0.25 | 13th | 1 | ||
| Podemos (UP) | 261.010 | 7.21 | 1.61 | 10 | 3 | ||
| Ciudadanos (C's) | 129,216 | 3.57 | 15.89 | - | 26 | ||
| Other | 37,228 | 1.54 | 0.29 | - | |||
| total | 3,603,177 | 100.00% | 136 | 4 | |||
| Valid votes | 3,603,177 | 98.86 | |||||
| Invalid votes | 41,400 | 1.14 | |||||
| Votes cast | 3,644,577 | 100.00% | |||||
| Number of eligible voters and turnout | 5,112,658 | 76.25 | |||||
| Source: Resultados | |||||||
Individual evidence
- ↑ Resultados Elecciones Madrid 2021 , on elmundo.es
- ↑ Choice of direction for the whole of Spain , on deutschlandfunk.de from May 3, 2010, accessed May 4, 2021
- ↑ With or without Vox: Elections in Madrid as a question of ideology , on wienerzeitung.at
- ↑ "It's about democracy or fascism" , on elpais.com