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The PSOE has won elections in the State in very few places, including Hego Euskal Herria. By territory, also in Álava and Navarra. But the supplement of Members has come from Navarra and Gipuzkoa, where he has won two seats and, in both, to the detriment of Sumar. The largest cast of votes is received in Bizkaia, about 35,000 more than the previous one.

The second great winner was EH Bildu, who has kept the wind in the municipal and foreign elections, winning a Member and adding more than 40,000 votes. The PNV is at a contrarian juncture, despite the poor trend of the last elections, losing two seats in its great kingdom in Bizkaia. Again it has lost more than 100,000 and many of them have gone to PP.

The PP has regained the votes it shares with nationalists and has achieved the most orderly result in recent years. The thousands of Basque citizens on the right make a perfect distinction in which elections they vote and, like the intermittent, now popular nationalist, the two forces have tens of thousands of votes in motion. It's a sample of many.

Happy with Carlos Iturgaitz and unable to fit Sergio Sayas, former right-wing Member and UPN. Because besides getting the seat of Navarra, the PP has stood ahead of the UPN. UPN is in a different situation, with the worst result in its history. Because since 1979 it has never been separated by the popular. Javier Esparza has assumed a great risk and needs him to drown in the foam of Sayas and Carlos García Adanero. However, PP and UPN have won between both 7,000 votes more than four years ago.

The distribution on the right has also given rise to something historic in the old kingdom: EH Bildu is in the background with the best results in history in the territory. Among other things, he has received the votes of Geroa Bai and Sumar, who are still on the way. The latter has lost almost 70,000 votes in the South, and again it is clear that it does not bring Ahal together as Duguk. The PSE and EH Bildu are demonstrating clear performance in this situation.

As for Geroa Bai, her leader Uxue Barkos became a Member of Madrid for two legislatures, on behalf of the Nafarroa Bai coalition, and, of course, NaBai is not Geroa Bai at all, but Barkas won 62,000 votes and Geroa Bai 9,700. 3,000 fewer than in 2019. There is no doubt a very risky trend to consider whether it is worth competing in this area.

And all of this, how is it going to influence Hego Euskal Herria in the short term? The Government of Navarra will be set up in August with the abstention of EH Bildu. Now with fewer Madrid floats in Navarra, because Sánchez also needs it in Madrid. And next year will also be the time for elections to the Basque Parliament. As far as the agreements on municipal elections are concerned, one might think that the pact between nationalists and socialists is united and well connected. A way in which PSE and PP are as united as nationalists. And of course, without the possibility of government, EH Bildu will try to take advantage of it.

As on other occasions, in the Spanish general elections, state competition has also led the statalist forces in Hego Euskal Herria, with a small exception, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, the only territories that move away from the burdensome state bipartisanship. And, if it continues, the peripheral will again maintain the possible government of the PSOE and Sumar, since independence again depends on the institutional wall against the extreme right in Spain.