The right-wing People's Party (PP) won the elections with 136 seats, increasing the number by 47 compared to December 2019 elections. The social democratic Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), headed by PM Pedro Sanchez, won 122 seats.
PCTE strengthened
Despite the difficult political conditions, the negative correlation of forces and the absence of any media coverage, the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) increased its electoral impact: 17,918 votes for Congress, increased by 37.52% in relation to 2019 elections and 63,513 votes for the Senate, up by 0.37%.
It is reminded the PCTE increased its electoral power in last May's regional and municipal elections
In a statement about the results, the Political Bureau of the PCTE underlines that “ the election between the PSOE and its crutch SUMAR or the PP and its
crutch VOX only meant the election between different forms of managing
Spanish capitalism, the interests of Spanish capitalists, whose main
representatives have witnessed how their profits grew during this last
term while life and labor conditions of the working-class majority have
been worsened in an evident way..”
The statement by the PCTE also stresses out: “
In spite of the PP victory, it does not
have an absolute majority along with VOX. A stage that could lead to the
repetition of elections in a few months will be opened unless the
Basque and Catalan independentist forces support the investiture of
Pedro Sánchez in a new social democratic coalition with SUMAR. In the
case of reedit the social democratic coalition, the attacks against the
working-class majority in the next term will follow the path opened
after the outbreak of the crisis catalyzed by the pandemic. Measures
that are meant to ensure a flexibility that will favor the employers at
companies and the maintenance of company profits via a massive transfer
of labor income to capital income —as subsidies, bonds, and direct or
indirect assistances— will be presented as new workers' and people's
rights. In the case of electoral repetition, the
working-class majority will be subdued to a brutal campaign to
reinforce the main parties of each capitalist bloc”.
As for its own results, the Communist Party of the Workers' of Spain underlines: "Our results —still modest but having a tendency to growth even though we
did not present candidacies in one third of constituencies— point that
we should keep on advancing in the development of a true class-oriented
opposition to the capitalist consensus. Such opposition will be only
possible through the general organizational strengthening of the
working-class majority, through the recovery of its classical tools for
struggle, and through a clear guidance to the rupture with capitalism
and all those who advocate it as well as the reactionary stances
pretending to introduce themselves within the workers' and people's
movement.”.
