Andalusian parliamentary election, 2015

Andalusian parliamentary election, 2015

22 March 2015

All 109 seats in the Parliament of Andalusia 55 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Registered 6,462,626 1.1% Turnout 4,026,182 (62.3%) 1.5 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Susana Díaz Juan Manuel Moreno Teresa Rodríguez Party PSOE-A PP Podemos Leader since 7 September 2013 1 March 2014 9 February 2015 Last election 47 seats, 39.6% 50 seats, 40.7% Did not contest Seats won 47 33 15 Seat change ±0 17 15 Popular vote 1,411,278 1,065,685 592,133 Percentage 35.4% 26.7% 14.9% Swing 4.2 pp 14.0 pp New party   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Juan Marín Antonio Maíllo Party C's IU Leader since 6 February 2014 16 June 2013 Last election Did not contest 12 seats, 11.3% Seats won 9 5 Seat change 9 7 Popular vote 369,896 274,426 Percentage 9.3% 6.9% Swing New party 4.4 pp

Province-level units won by PSOE-A (red) and PP (blue)

President before election Susana Díaz PSOE-A Elected President Susana Díaz PSOE-A

The 2015 Andalusian parliamentary election was held on Sunday, 22 March 2015, to elect the 10th Parliament of Andalusia, the regional legislature of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia. At stake were all 109 seats in the Parliament, determining the President of the Regional Government of Andalusia.

While the legislature theoretically lasted until 2016, tension rising within the coalition government between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and United Left (IU) paved the way for a snap election to be held sometime during 2015. After a week of speculation, this was confirmed on 26 January 2015, when Susana Díaz officially set the snap election for 22 March.^[1] Andalusia has traditionally been considered a PSOE stronghold, being the only region of Spain in which no other party has headed the community's government; PSOE winning all elections (municipal, regional, European and general) since 1977 except for those held in 2011 and 2012.

The PSOE under President Susana Díaz regained first place from the People's Party (PP), which became the big election loser after losing 500,000 votes and 17 seats from 2012 and scoring its worst result since 1990. All in all, PSOE's result, with just over 35%, was the worst of its history in the region, after a strong performance by newcomers Podemos and Citizens, gathering 24 seats and just under 1 million votes between the two of them. IU, the former coalition partner of the PSOE, suffered from Podemos' surge and fell from 12 to 5 seats, also to its worst historical result, while Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) remained unable to enter Parliament and lost votes.

Electoral system

The 109 members of the Parliament of Andalusia were elected in 8 multi-member districts, corresponding to Andalusia's eight provinces, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Each district was entitled to an initial minimum of 8 seats, with the remaining 45 seats allocated among the eight provinces in proportion to their populations, on the condition that the number of seats in each district did not exceed 2 times those of any other. For the 2015 election, seats were distributed as follows: Almeria (12), Cadiz (15), Cordoba (12), Granada (13), Huelva (11), Jaen (11), Malaga (17) and Seville (18).

Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 3% of valid votes in each district (which includes blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.^[2][3]

Background

Despite losing in the 2012 election to the People's Party (PP), which won a regional election in Andalusia for the first time since the establishment of the autonomous community, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) under José Antonio Griñán was able to remain in office for a ninth consecutive term thanks to the support of United Left (IU), with whom the Socialists formed a coalition government.

In July 2013, President Griñán announced his intention to resign from office in order to "preserve the [regional] Government from the erosion of the ERE scandal", a large slush fund corruption scandal involving former leading figures of the regional PSOE's branch, including former Development Minister Magdalena Álvarez, with former Andalusía President Manuel Chaves and himself being accused of knowing and concealing such a plot. Griñán was succeeded by Susana Díaz as President of the regional government.^[4][5]

Despite the apparent parliamentary comfort of the ruling coalition, friction between both PSOE and IU remained an issue throughout the entire legislature, especially after Susana Díaz took over the government in September 2013. In April 2014, an episode of IU's Housing Counsellor awarding several government houses to homeless families without the President's approval resulted in the Counsellor seeing her competences removed and of the coalition pact almost breaking up.^[6]

Susana Díaz took over from José Antonio Griñán as President of the Regional Government of Andalusia on 7 September 2013.

In January 2015, tension between both coalition partners had grown up after IU had proposed to hold a referendum among its members set for June 2015 to decide whether to remain or withdraw from the government.^[7] Susana Díaz declared that "we need a government which enjoys a stability that currently does not exist", opening the door for a snap election to be held in short time.^[8][9] On January 20, Díaz met all eight PSOE provincial leaders in order to seek support within the party for a snap election to be held in March 2015, which she received.,^[10] with the PSOE national leadership taking for granted that a snap election would be held by March 2015. By January 21 mutual attacks between both PSOE and IU, accusing each other of breaching the coalition agreement, made it clear that the only solution to the ongoing governmental crisis would come by the calling of a snap election.^[11]

On 22 January, after President Díaz said "this cannot be delayed any longer", it was announced that an extraordinary parliamentary plenary session would be held on Monday, 26 January, where she announced the dissolving of parliament and the subsequent calling of a snap election for 22 March.^[1][12][13] Díaz herself had previously declared, during a PSOE rally in Seville, that "It is time for the Andalusian people to speak" and "We shall obtain the [people's] confidence in the ballots".^[14]

Spanish media speculated that the snap election came as a result of different factors; namely, Susana Díaz' private aspirations to the prime ministerial race in late 2015 (despite her publicly refusing it),^[15][16] as well as both Podemos' surge in opinion polls and to prevent the party's exhaustion after all 2015 electoral calls (local and regional in May, Catalan in September and general in autumn), in a time when opinion polls were still favorable to the PSOE in Andalusia.^[17]

On 17 February 2015, one month short of the election, the Spanish Supreme Court charged former Andalusia Presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán in the ERE scandal, for their possible responsibility in the misuse of the misappropriated public funds.^[18] The PSOE insisted on the same day that it would not ask Chaves and Griñán to give up their seats in the Spanish Congress and Senate, despite both incumbent President Susana Díaz and PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez having assured in the past that they would do so in the event of both of them being charged.^[19]

Opinion polls

Vote

Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. Poll results use the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. However, if such date is unknown, the date of publication will be given instead.

Color key:

      Exit poll

Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling								Margin of Error	Sample Size	Lead
Regional Election	March 22, 2015	26.7	35.4	6.9	1.9	1.5	9.3	14.9			8.7
GAD3	March 22, 2015	27.3	33.7	7.5	1.7	1.3	9.4	15.9			6.4
TNS Demoscopia	March 22, 2015	26.9	33.1	7.3	2.2	1.7	8.0	17.5		33,600	6.2
Jaime Miquel & Asociados	March 16, 2015	24.6	33.4	6.4	1.8	2.0	10.4	18.3			8.8
Encuestamos	March 16, 2015	21.3	32.7	8.1	3.6		15.4	14.8			11.4
NC Report	March 14, 2015	26.8	33.1	6.5	2.7	2.5	11.8	15.2	±2.8 pp	1,300	6.3
Deimos Statistics	March 13, 2015	24.0	36.3	7.9	2.1	1.6	10.3	16.4	±3.1 pp	1,056	12.3
Celeste-Tel	March 13, 2015	23.7	37.5	6.2	2.4	2.3	11.4	14.7	±2.0 pp	2,400	13.8
GAD3	March 13, 2015	28.4	32.4	7.1	1.3	1.6	10.9	15.5	±2.8 pp	1,300	4.0
Sigma Dos	March 12, 2015	26.8	33.1	6.8	2.0		11.4	15.2	±2.4 pp	1,800	6.3
Metroscopia	March 11, 2015	25.1	36.7	8.5	1.3		11.0	14.7	±1.8 pp	3,200	11.6
My Word	March 11, 2015	22.3	33.6	6.2	2.0	1.4	10.7	19.9	±2.9 pp	1,215	11.3
Jaime Miquel & Asociados	March 6, 2015	27.3	33.3	5.5	2.6	1.0	6.6	19.4			6.0
Celeste-Tel	March 6, 2015	26.6	36.9	6.8	2.5	2.9	8.4	14.0	±2.0 pp	2,400	10.3
NC Report	March 4, 2015	28.2	33.1	7.2	2.5	2.8	10.1	14.3	±2.8 pp	1,300	4.9
Invymark	March 2, 2015	29.9	36.7	6.0	2.1	2.0	7.1	14.5			6.8
Commentia	March 2, 2015	30.7	35.9	4.1	1.2		5.6	19.4	±2.4 pp	1,800	5.2
Liceo Andaluz	February 27, 2015	22.2	28.7	11.2	1.3	6.1	12.1	16.1	±4 pp	1,500	6.5
Deimos Statistics	February 25, 2015	25.7	33.4	6.1	1.5	1.5	7.8	22.3	±2.5 pp	1,539	7.7
Metroscopia	February 24, 2015	22.7	34.6	6.8	2.8		11.0	16.7	±3.2 pp	1,000	11.9
IMC	February 21, 2015	30.7	37.8	4.7	2.4	1.1	5.0	12.0	±3 pp	1,100	7.1
Celeste-Tel	February 20, 2015	27.4	36.7	7.4	2.6	3.1	6.1	14.7	±2.0 pp	2,400	9.3
CIS	February 17, 2015	25.7	34.7	6.6	2.3	1.2	6.4	19.2	±1.8 pp	3,130	9.0
AIED	February 10, 2015	22.2	30.8	8.4	6.1	3.2	3.0	19.0	±2.5 pp	500	8.6
Jaime Miquel & Asociados	January 31, 2015	27.8	30.6	9.7	4.0	2.5	2.6	18.9			2.8
CADPEA	January 31, 2015	29.1	35.2	8.4	3.1	2.4	4.6	14.9	±2.8 pp	1,200	6.1
GAD3	January 30, 2015	32.7	36.4	7.1			4.4	13.5	±3.5 pp	800	3.7
Sigma Dos	January 29, 2015	30.2	34.7	8.2	3.5		3.4	15.6	±2.4 pp	1,800	4.5
Celeste-Tel	January 22, 2015	27.8	36.0	7.3	2.8	3.2	4.6	16.1	±1.8 pp	3,300	8.2
Invymark	January 19, 2015	29.4	39.6	8.7	3.0			15.2			10.2
Liceo Andaluz	December 12, 2014	23.8	29.9	12.5	4.5	7.4		15.2	±4 pp	1,500	6.1
Commentia	December 3, 2014	24.9	30.9	12.8	4.8		2.0	17.4	±3.5 pp	800	6.0
My Word	August 27, 2014	28.3	31.2	8.8	5.4	0.8		18.1	±3.5 pp	798	2.9
Invymark	July 21, 2014	29.7	38.4	12.4	4.5	2.3		9.5			8.7
CADPEA	July 8, 2014	36.2	36.9	10.0	5.0	2.3		6.6	±2.8 pp	1,200	0.7
EP Election	May 25, 2014	25.9	35.1	11.6	7.1	1.7	1.7	7.1			9.2
Commentia	February 18, 2014	30.8	35.6	15.0	6.3	2.7			±3.5 pp	802	4.8
NC Report	February 15, 2014	33.2	35.3	15.9	6.0	3.9			±3.5 pp	808	2.1
CADPEA	February 7, 2014	31.1	36.7	15.5	7.4	3.0			±1.7 pp	3,200	5.6
Sigma Dos	September 27, 2013	36.2	36.9	14.1	5.8				±1.1 pp	6,400	0.7
CUATREM	September 13, 2013	30.5	37.1	14.1	8.4	3.9			±3.9 pp	625	6.6
NC Report	September 8, 2013	32.9	35.8	16.2	5.6	4.0			±7.1 pp	200	2.9
CADPEA	July 23, 2013	29.0	36.1	18.7	6.8	2.9			±2.8 pp	1,200	7.1
CUATREM	July 5, 2013	32.2	36.9	15.1	6.1	3.4			±3.9 pp	625	4.7
CUATREM	May 13, 2013	29.8	40.4	16.8	5.5	1.7			±3.9 pp	625	10.6
Commentia	February 19, 2013	34.4	37.9	15.1	5.1	2.7			±3.5 pp	800	3.5
Nexo	February 14, 2013	34.2	41.0	13.7	5.5	2.4			±2.9 pp	1,200	6.8
UJA	February 8, 2013	29.5	39.1	16.4	6.7	2.3				2,000	9.6
CADPEA	January 24, 2013	34.4	38.0	14.2	6.4	2.6			±2.8 pp	1,200	3.6
IESA	November 7, 2012	30.7	39.2	16.1	5.8	3.3			±1.7 pp	3,675	8.5
CADPEA	June 29, 2012	37.6	39.8	12.7	4.1	2.3			±2.8 pp	1,200	2.2
Regional Election	March 25, 2012	40.7	39.6	11.3	3.4	2.5					1.1

Seat projections

Opinion polls showing seat projections are displayed in the table below. The highest seat figures in each polling survey have their background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. 55 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of Andalusia.

Color key:

      Exit poll

55 seats needed for a majority

Polling Firm/Link	Last Date of Polling
Regional Election	March 22, 2015	33	47	5	0	0	9	15
GAD3	March 22, 2015	33/38	39/44	5/6	0	0	7/10	16/20
TNS Demoscopia	March 22, 2015	32/35	41/44	6/7	0	0	6/7	19/22
Jaime Miquel & Asociados	March 16, 2015	31	41	4	0	0	12	21
Encuestamos	March 16, 2015	27/30	42/44	7/8	0	0	15/17	13/15
GAD3	March 16, 2015	33/38	40/43	6/8	0	0	10/13	12/15
NC Report	March 14, 2015	32/33	43/45	4/5	0	0	10/12	15/16
Deimos Statistics	March 13, 2015	27	45	7	0	0	10	20
Celeste-Tel	March 13, 2015	29/30	50	4/5	0	0	9	16
GAD3	March 13, 2015	34/38	40/44	5/7	0	0	8/9	15/18
Sigma Dos	March 12, 2015	32/36	41/44	4	0	0	11/12	16/18
Metroscopia	March 11, 2015	29	45	8	0	0	12	15
My Word	March 11, 2015	26/27	42	6/7	0	0	9/10	24/25
Jaime Miquel & Asociados	March 6, 2015	36	42	4	0	0	5	22
Celeste-Tel	March 6, 2015	34	49	5	0	0	5	16
NC Report	March 4, 2015	34	44/46	6	0	0	8/10	14/16
Commentia	March 2, 2015	36/39	41/46	3	0	0	5/6	18/21
Liceo Andaluz	February 27, 2015	29	38	8	0	3	8	23
Deimos Statistics	February 25, 2015	33	40	4	0	0	7	25
Metroscopia	February 24, 2015	27/31	40/44	5/9	0	0	8/12	18/22
IMC	February 21, 2015	39/42	44/48	3/5	0	0	3/5	12/14
Celeste-Tel	February 20, 2015	35	48	6	0	0	3	17
CIS	February 17, 2015	34	44	4/5	0	0	5	21/22
AIED	February 10, 2015	26/28	39/43	9/11	2/5	0/1	0	19/23
Jaime Miquel & Asociados	January 31, 2015	36/37	40	10	0/1	0	0	22
GAD3	January 30, 2015	39/42	43/46	7/9	0	0	0	15/17
Sigma Dos	January 29, 2015	39/42	43/45	5/7	0/1	0	0	17/19
Celeste-Tel	January 22, 2015	36	47	7	0	0	2	17
EP Election	May 25, 2014	(35)	(51)	(12)	(6)	(0)	(0)	(5)
NC Report	February 15, 2014	43/45	45/46	17/18	0/2	0/1
Sigma Dos	September 27, 2013	46	45	14	4
NC Report	September 8, 2013	43/45	45/47	18/19	0/1	0
Nexo	February 14, 2013	42/44	49/51	12/14	2/3	0/1
IESA	November 7, 2012	40/41	49/51	15/16	3/4	0
Regional Election	March 25, 2012	50	47	12	0	0

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 22 March 2015 Andalusian Parliament election results

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE-A)	1,411,278	35.41	4.15	47	±0
	People's Party (PP)	1,065,685	26.74	13.93	33	17
	We Can (Podemos)	592,133	14.86	New	15	15
	Citizens-Party of the Citizenry (C's)	369,896	9.28	New	9	9
	United Left The Greens-Assembly for Andalusia (IULV-CA)	274,426	6.89	4.46	5	7
	Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)	76,839	1.93	1.42	0	±0
	Andalusian Party (PA)	60,645	1.52	0.99	0	±0
	Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)	31,958	0.80	0.57	0	±0
	Vox (VOX)	18,422	0.46	New	0	±0
	United Free Citizens (CILUS)	11,277	0.28	New	0	±0
	Spanish Falange of the JONS (FE-JONS)	4,759	0.12	0.06	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		12,998	0.33	–	0	±0
	Zero Cuts (Recortes Cero)	3,566	0.09	0.06	0	±0
	Communist Party of the Andalusian People (PCPA-PCPE)	3,528	0.09	0.02	0	±0
	For a Fairer World (PUM+J)	1,984	0.05	0.01	0	±0
	Blank Seats (Eb)	1,155	0.03	0.12	0	±0
	People's Welfare Party (PBG)	498	0.01	New	0	±0
	Labour and Justice Party (PTJ)	389	0.01	New	0	±0
	Socialists and Republicans (SyR)	380	0.01	0.01	0	±0
	Local and Global (LyG)	317	0.01	New	0	±0
	Andalusian Nationalist People (PNdeA)	302	0.01	0.01	0	±0
	Neo-Democrats (Neodemócratas)	278	0.01	New	0	±0
	Regionalist Party for Eastern Andalusia (PRAO)	254	0.01	0.02	0	±0
	Andalusian Solidary Independent Republican Party (RISA)	182	0.00	±0.00	0	±0
	Change It (Cámbialo)	165	0.00	New	0	±0

	Blank ballots	54,717	1.37	0.46
Total		3,985,033	100.00		109	±0
Valid votes		3,985,033	98.98	0.44
Invalid votes		41,149	1.02	0.44
Votes cast / turnout		4,026,182	62.30	1.52
Abstentions		2,436,444	37.70	1.52
Registered voters		6,462,626
Source(s): Electoral Board of Andalusia Argos Information Portal

Vote share
PSOE-A			35.41%
PP			26.74%
Podemos			14.86%
C's			9.28%
IULV-CA			6.89%
UPyD			1.93%
PA			1.52%
Others			1.99%
Blank ballots			1.37%

Parliamentary seats
PSOE-A			43.12%
PP			30.28%
Podemos			13.76%
C's			8.27%
IULV-CA			4.59%

Results by province

Post-election

The result of the election was a hung parliament, with the PSOE winning the same amount of seats it had previously (47). Still, it performed slightly better than what most polls had predicted, despite falling 8 seats short of the absolute majority they had set as an objective. The PP plummeted to just 33 seats after scoring its best ever result in the 2012 election, suffering the burden of PM Mariano Rajoy's governance in the Spanish Government. This represented the party's worst result at a regional election in Andalusia since the 1990 election, falling below the 30% threshold. The main beneficiaries of the election were parties alternative to the considered "traditional" ones — Podemos and Citizens, both of them, despite polling slightly lower than what early polls predicted, winning seats for the first time in the Parliament of Andalusia, achieving an historical record for any party standing from zero at an election of any kind.

The post-election scenario, however, turned more difficult than what was originally expected.^[20] IU collapse from 12 to 5 seats turned it into a minority force in the new parliament unable to decide a future government, preventing PSOE from even attempting a renewal of the PSOE-IU government of 2012-2015 (a scenario which IU itself refused, due to the early dissolution of the coalition agreement).^[21][22] The PP, initially widely expected to abstain in Susana Díaz' investiture voting in order to allow "a government of the most-voted party", announced instead that it would vote against Díaz' investiture.^[23][24]

Newcomers Podemos and Citizens thus became decisive in the election of any future cabinet, yet remained reluctant to support a new PSOE government. The parties presented a series of harsh pre-agreement conditions regarding political corruption and other issues, for the PSOE to comply in order to allow for agreement talks:^[25]

• Podemos offered to support Díaz' investiture only if she forced the resignation of former Presidents Manuel Chaves and José Antonio Griñán (which at the time were MPs in the Congress of Deputies and Senate, respectively) because of their responsibility in the ERE scandal; that political parties were turned into subsidiary responsible for ensuring that misused public money was returned; that the Andalusian Government cancelled all agreements or accounts with financial institutions running evictions, as well as prompting legislation to prevent any future eviction; and finally, the readmission of personnel in education, health, equality and social welfare sectors fired as a result of the spending cuts, with a decrease in the number of party officials and advisers. In the event those conditions were not accepted, Podemos would vote against Díaz.^[26]
• Citizens (C's) required the immediate resignation of Chaves and Griñán before entering any talks with Susana Díaz' party.^[27][28] Party leader Albert Rivera, however, opened the door to allowing Díaz' investiture if that condition was met, but ruled out any possible entry into a future Díaz' government.^[29]
• The People's Party (PP) offered to easen Susana Díaz' investiture only if the PSOE allowed "the most-voted party" to rule in the municipalities after the May local elections,^[30] as an attempt to prevent left-wing coalitions from robbing the People's Party of the governments of the region's provincial capitals.

Susana Díaz immediately ruled out the PP conditions, suggesting party regional leader Juan Manuel Moreno to "act with responsibility, without pretending weird exchanges that the people would not understand".^[31] Moreno, in response, accused Díaz of "arrogancy" and told her that "with 47 seats one can't pretend to negotiate as if one had 55 [an absolute majority of seats]".^[32]

Susana Díaz' investiture for a second term as President of Andalusia remained unclear for a month. She explicitly expressed her intention to form a minority government, ruling out a coalition with any other party;^[33] however, until June 2015 she was not able to prevent all other parties from blocking her election. Andalusian law established that if no candidate was elected President in the two months following the first investiture vote, then Parliament was to be automatically dissolved for a new election to be held no later than September 2015.^[34][35][36]

Investiture voting

Candidate	Date	Vote	PSOE	PP	P	C's	IU	Total
Susana Díaz (PSOE)	5 May 2015 Majority required: Absolute (55/109)	Yes	47					47 / 109
		No		33	15	9	5	62 / 109
		Abst.						0 / 109
	8 May 2015 Majority required: Simple	Yes	47					47 / 109
		No		33	15	9	5	62 / 109
		Abst.						0 / 109
	14 May 2015 Majority required: Simple	Yes	47					47 / 109
		No		33	15	9	5	62 / 109
		Abst.						0 / 109
	11 June 2015 Majority required: Simple	Yes	47			9		56 / 109
		No		31^a	15		5	51 / 109
		Abst.						0 / 109
Source(s): El País (1st round) El País (2nd round) El País (3rd round) El País (4th round)

^a 2 PP MPs missed the voting.

Susana Díaz was unable to get a favorable vote in either of the three votings that took place in 5, 8 and 14 May, as all four PP, Podemos, C's and IU voted against her election. Further, negotiations between Díaz' PSOE and the opposition parties broke off when, on 13 May (the eve of the third investiture voting) it was unveiled that the Andalusian government had awarded the exploitation of the Aznalcóllar mine to a governmental-favored firm through illegal means and "without observing the slightest rigor" in February-March 2015, previously and during the regional election campaign.^[37][38] With Díaz' government refusing to give explanations over the scandal, all four parties reassured their negative to allow for Díaz' investiture in the 14 May vote,^[39] with then-acting President Susana Díaz blaming all four opposition parties of imposing a "political blockade" over Andalusia and threatening them with a new election to be held in the event of her failing to get elected.^[40]

PP regional leader Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla accused Díaz of "arrogance" and of "asking them to allow her investiture without yielding to their conditions", also asking himself why did Díaz keep celebrating investiture sessions if no inter-party agreement had been reached.^[41] Teresa Rodríguez from Podemos also criticised Díaz for not accepting her party's conditions, blaming the PSOE for the political instability in the region and stating that a new election would mean the PSOE's failure in forming a government through dialogue.^[42] All opposition parties also reiterated their position that they did not trust Díaz to fulfill any compromise once she did get elected.^[43]

New investiture votings were initially postponed until after the 24 May Spanish regional and municipal elections as a result of the electoral campaign centering the political focus.^[44] However, on 5 June, after the elections, on the impossibility to have Díaz formally invested, the PSOE threatened the opposition parties with letting the legal time limit for the automatic dissolution of the Parliament to expire should an agreement not be reached with anyone before Tuesday, 9 June.^[45] In the end, the PSOE and C's reached an agreement, with the latter accepting to support Díaz to end the parliamentary deadlock and prevent a new election, lifting off their requirement for Chaves and Griñan's resignations before considering to enter negotiations with the PSOE.^[46]

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