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2016 Basque regional election

2016 Basque regional election
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All 75 seats in the Basque Parliament
38 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered1,783,419 Green arrow up0.5%
Turnout1,070,357 (60.0%)
Red arrow down3.9 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Iñigo Urkullu Arnaldo Otegi[a] Pilar Zabala
Party EAJ/PNV EH Bildu Elkarrekin Podemos
Leader since 2 December 2007 24 May 2016 11 August 2016
Leader's seat Álava Gipuzkoa Gipuzkoa
Last election 27 seats, 34.2% 21 seats, 24.7% 0 seats, 3.7%[b]
Seats won 28 18 11
Seat change Green arrow up1 Red arrow down3 Green arrow up11
Popular vote 398,168 225,172 157,334
Percentage 37.4% 21.1% 14.8%
Swing Green arrow up3.2 pp Red arrow down3.6 pp Green arrow up11.1 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Idoia Mendia Alfonso Alonso
Party PSE–EE (PSOE) PP
Leader since 20 September 2014 15 October 2015
Leader's seat Biscay Álava
Last election 16 seats, 18.9% 10 seats, 11.6%
Seats won 9 9
Seat change Red arrow down7 Red arrow down1
Popular vote 126,420 107,771
Percentage 11.9% 10.1%
Swing Red arrow down7.0 pp Red arrow down1.5 pp
Lehendakari before election

Iñigo Urkullu
EAJ/PNV

Elected Lehendakari

Iñigo Urkullu
EAJ/PNV

The 2016 Basque regional election was held on Sunday, 25 September 2016, to elect the 11th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu announced that the election would be held one month ahead of schedule, on 25 September 2016, based on the "climate of ungovernability" affecting national politics as a result of the ongoing Spanish government formation negotiations, intending to move the regional election as far away as possible from a possible new general election.[1][2] This prompted Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo to hold the Galician regional election in the same date.[3]

Urkullu's Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) emerged as the largest political force in the region with an increased plurality, but required from the support of other parties to govern. This was to be provided by the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSE–EE), which despite scoring the worst result in its history after seeing its support almost halved—falling from 18.9% and 16 seats to 11.9% and 9 seats—would go on to form a coalition minority government with the PNV. EH Bildu was able to hold onto second place, albeit with a reduced support by going down from 21 to 17 seats, whereas the Elkarrekin Podemos alliance scored third, but below campaign expectations. The People's Party (PP) continued on its long-term decline in the Basque Country, whereas Citizens (Cs) failed to win any seat.[4][5]

Urkullu was able to get re-elected as lehendakari with the support of both his party and the PSE–EE.[6] The resulting coalition recovered an alliance which both the PNV and the PSE had already formed between 1987 and 1998 in the Basque government,[7][8] and which had already been extended to city councils and the Juntas Generales following the 2015 local and foral elections.[9]

The results of the Basque and Galician elections, both of which saw very poor PSOE's performances after being overtaken by the Podemos-led alliances and polling at record-low levels of support,[10] prompted dissenters within the party—led by Andalusian president Susana Díaz—to call for Pedro Sánchez's resignation as PSOE secretary-general.[11][12] Sánchez's refusal to resign and his announcement of a party congress for later in the year—amid an ongoing government formation process and with the growing risk of a third general election in a row being held in Spain—led to an attempt from his critics to force his downfall,[13][14] triggering a severe party crisis and a breakdown of party discipline which led to Sánchez's ousting on 1 October 2016,[15] a divided PSOE abstaining in Mariano Rajoy's investiture on 29 October and a subsequent party leadership election in 2017 which would see Sánchez returning to his post of secretary-general and taking full control over the party.[16][17]


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  1. ^ "Urkullu adelanta las elecciones vascas al 25 de septiembre". El Mundo (in Spanish). 29 July 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Urkullu convoca las elecciones vascas el 25 de septiembre". El País (in Spanish). 29 July 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Feijóo adelanta las elecciones gallegas al 25 de septiembre". El País (in Spanish). 1 August 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  4. ^ "El PNV gana las elecciones vascas por mayoría simple y Urkullu tendrá que negociar para poder gobernar de nuevo" (in Spanish). RTVE. 25 September 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  5. ^ "El PNV gobernará en coalición con los socialistas". El País (in Spanish). 17 November 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Urkullu, elegido lehendakari de la undécima legislatura por mayoría simple". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 24 November 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  7. ^ "PNV y PSE retomarán la fórmula que mantuvo el Gobierno vasco de 1987 a 1998". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 20 November 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  8. ^ "Un acuerdo PNV-PSE 19 años después". ABC (in Spanish). 21 November 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  9. ^ "PNV y PSE completan su alianza en Euskadi con una coalición en Vitoria". El País (in Spanish). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  10. ^ "El PP coge aire en las urnas gallegas y vascas frente a un PSOE en caída libre". 20 minutos (in Spanish). 26 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Susana Díaz quiere retrasar el congreso y exige a Pedro Sánchez que asuma "responsabilidades"". El Mundo (in Spanish). 26 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  12. ^ "El PSOE andaluz estalla e inicia una guerra en campo abierto contra Sánchez". Público (in Spanish). 26 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  13. ^ "Media ejecutiva estudia dimitir para forzar la salida de Pedro Sánchez". El País (in Spanish). 27 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  14. ^ "Dimite media ejecutiva del PSOE para forzar el cese de Pedro Sánchez". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 28 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  15. ^ "Pedro Sánchez dimite como secretario general del PSOE". El País (in Spanish). 2 October 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  16. ^ "Rajoy, investido presidente gracias a la abstención de todos los diputados del PSOE excepto 15". El Mundo (in Spanish). 29 October 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  17. ^ "Pedro Sánchez vuelve a ser el secretario general del PSOE". El País (in Spanish). 23 May 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
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