21-D in Extremadura: First balance of the elections

The PP won, Vox grew and the PSOE collapsed. Beyond the election results, The Autonomous Community is crossed by poverty, latifundismo, the crisis of the '78 regime and the urgency of a consistent left-wing alternative! Free Extremadura for socialism!

By Jaime Flores and Rubén Tzanoff

Results and autonomous government

The PP obtained 43,2 % of votes (29 seats of the 65 totals, staying at 4 of the absolute majority). The PSOE collapsed until 25,7 % (18 seats), the far-right party Vox rose to 16,9 % (11 seats) at the expense of the votes that the PP lost, while the coalition of Unidas por Extremadura (We can–IU–AV) reached 10,3 % (7 seats) in the regional assembly.

The results imply that the PP will have to negotiate the formation of a new government with another party, mainly due to affinity with Vox, For this reason, they have already begun to exchange positions between unity and the dispute by the right-wing sectors..

He 20 to declare itself a provisional government and above all to prevent the advances of the protesters from the suburbs 2026 is the deadline to constitute the new Assembly and the 19 February 2026 the indicative date until which the first investiture session could be held if internal deadlines are exhausted.

The collapse of the PSOE and the farce of the “helpful vote”

The results of the 21 December are a sentence: the PSOE has lost 10 seats in just two years. His speech “anti-Vox front” has collapsed in the face of the reality of the Koldo or Ábalos corruption cases and the complaints of sexist harassment in their ranks. Present a vetted candidate, without charisma and who sought capacity as a lifesaver, It has been a new blow to his credibility with the working class.  Although the Government of Pedro Sánchez has ignored the bad results, has received an electoral blow that opens a question: Is the PSOE failure a sample of what could happen in a general election or just the expression in one of the Autonomous Communities?

Whatever, It is a blow to the state government and a concern from above while working people are worried about paying the rent, inflation, low salaries and precarious working conditions that deteriorate their standard of living without any gains for fundamental rights due to the inaction of the majority union centers UGT and CC.OO. when more than four million people do not have enough income to make ends meet and one in four Spaniards is at risk of poverty even if they have a job.

street action, political and ideological in the face of the extreme right

Political and social polarization continues to be expressed in the rise of the right that acquires and/or strengthens its political representation while, at the opposite pole, there are struggles but without alternative directions. Reactionary sectors use social networks and toxic podcasts, anti-feminists and anti-immigrants, how to act that Vox has been able to capitalize on despite its own scandals. It is not a passing fact; It is a trend that will reproduce if we do not act. We need to create alternative political counterpowers, communications and collective self-defense networks. The battle occurs in all areas, on the streets, with critical thinking within the workplace, the schools, houses and neighborhoods to shield youth from the reaction that is actively targeting them.

Organize resistance and build an alternative

The 3.179 votes and the “sovereignty” space of Nuevo Extremeñismo demonstrate the existence of a sector with its own voice. Nevertheless, We believe that they do so with great limitations because total emancipation will not come by weaving alliances with reformism within the '78 regime and the capitalist system.. It is a path that will not lead to breaking with the tentacles of capital but to managing it in a supposedly less “cruel or bloodthirsty”.

Beyond electoral issues, the immediate is promote and support the struggles of workers and the people, strengthen combative social and union movements, both in Extremadura and throughout the Spanish State. And build a new political alternative, consistent left, since class independence, socialist and revolutionary that founds the identities, in this case Extremadura, with the class struggle as the center, in the perspective that the workers and the people govern, with a socialist system and full democratic freedoms. And prioritizing the international regrouping of the revolutionaries, as the International Socialist League has proposed (LIS) in his recent III Congress.