Partido Popular goes into election meltdown

The PP’s performance at the regional election is the worst it has experienced since the Balearics attained autonomous government in 1983.The Partido Popular has suffered its worst ever result in a Balearic parliamentary election. On the two occasions it failed to form an administration in the past, it won 28 seats, two short of a majority. At this election, the PP has fallen way behind that majority threshold and in the process has lost fifteen seats in parliament.
 While the result is a disaster for the PP and for President Bauzá, there will not be huge joy among supporters of the PSOE socialist party. It has won 14 seats, one more than it did at the 1999 election, after which it formed a coalition government.    But then it could count on six additional seats because of a separate political entity in Ibiza. Now,  it can only call on one seat in Formentera, that of the GxF, to boost its meagre number.  Francina Armengol, the leader of PSOE, may well now become the first female president of the Balearics, but in order for this to happen, she is going to need the support of other parties, the two which did particularly well at the election yesterday - Podemos and Més (both in Majorca and Minorca). Podemos will have nine deputies in the next parliament, while Més will have nine in total. El Pi performed better than had been expected.