MADRID (Reuters) – the PSOE won the elections on Sunday in the Principality of Asturias, which held its second regional elections in less than a year after months of stagnation political, although it could not govern if bind two parties conservative Forum Asturias and PP, second and third, respectively.
The Asturian community elected last may by a narrow majority to the Asturias Forum party, led by the former Minister Francisco Ãlvarez-Cascos, who left the party to form the regional group, and in January called early elections after failing to approval of regional budgets.
Asturian voters gave the PSOE 16 seats, to FAC 13 (three fewer than in May) and PP 10, while left United achieved 5 deputies and UPyD came with a seat for the first time in a Parliament of 45 members who has been very fragmented.
The rate of abstention was of 44 percent, 11 points higher than in May 2011.
The PP expressed its readiness to ensure the governability of Asturias and to reach a consensus with the various forces of the Principality, but also criticized the call for early elections which he described as “unnecessary”.
“(Los_resultados) show, to see the fragmentation of the Parliament, which the Asturian today did not need a new electoral call”, said the general Secretary of the national PP, Maria Dolores Cospedal, in a hearing after the results.
Asturian elections held the same day in which the media attention was concentrated in the autonomous elections of Andalusia, traditional Socialist bastion, where the PP won for the first time the elections but short of an absolute majority, a result that slows the conservative wave after the victories of the Party of Mariano Rajoy in the General and municipal last year.
