Spain’s ruling Socialists have suffered another bitter defeat in a regional election in the north-east of the country.
02/09/2026, 06:2902/09/2026, 06:29
In the autonomous community of Aragon, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s party slipped by more than five percentage points to just 24.3 percent, a historically bad result.
Pedro Sánchez’s party is currently in difficult times.Image: keystone
Spanish media such as the newspapers “La Vanguardia” and “El País” saw this as a further blow to Sánchez’s weakening minority government, which no longer has a majority in the parliament in Madrid. In December, the ruling party PSOE had already experienced a debacle in the regional elections in Extremadura and had fallen by 14 percentage points to just 26 percent.
The conservative popular party PP, which previously ruled Aragon, became the strongest force again with slight losses of 34.3 percent, but is more dependent than before on the right-wing populist party Vox. This increased by around 6.5 percentage points to 17.9 percent and doubled its number of seats in parliament, as the electoral commission in the regional capital Zaragoza announced after counting almost all votes. (sda/dpa)