The MP Raquel González did not miss everything around 21:30 hours. With the first official results in hand, although it was seen that the coalition between his party and Citizens was going to receive a rather strong blow, the president of Bizkaia of the right-wing party put in the headcount the capital letter: "Only 50% has still been accounted for and many things can happen today. We are very concerned about abstention, we should all ask ourselves why this has happened,” he said. And to finish his brief speech, he added: “Our candidate will make the assessment at the end of the night.”

Surely things would have been organized like this, but the fact of emphasizing that the face of the poor results obtained by the PP and Cs in these elections may not be a mere detail, considering that the investiture of the santurtziarra has been an imposition from Madrid for the PP of the CAV; and that González himself has suffered directly with the representatives of EH Bildu sur, “After Indians. There is no atmosphere in the Basque pp in recent times, you only have to remember Semper, Quiroga or Alonso, who have disappeared from the map.

Poor results therefore: Despite the alliance with Citizens, pp has lost four seats compared to the 2016 elections. It has returned to the results of 30 years ago, and we have to go to the times of the People’s Alliance to find worse results than on 12 July.

But Iturgaiz came out shortly before 23:00 in front of the cameras, and he just had to empty the bottle of champagne over his head, he was so energetic. “We have won the polls, below the five seats we were all given,” he proclaimed. He then quotes José Félix Tezanos, president of the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) of Spain, in the right-wing point of view, who anticipates the results favorable to the PSOE. “With 2.8% of the votes, Tezanos said we would disappear from Parliament and here we are,” said the list head of the popular.

Having expressed its concern about the abstention, it has accused the Basque Government of being "equal to the circumstances". And then he started to play his usual repertoire – to cappella, yes – “That abstention has facilitated that from now on the four-fifths of the parliament will be Basque. There are those who bleach and use Bildu, who do not condemn the violence; and only that serves to strengthen Bildu.”

Iturgaiz has been gaining strength as he has been talking: After congratulating Alberto Núñez Feijóo on the absolute majority obtained in Galicia, he warned that in the CAV there are also options to get a sixth seat, remembering how Bea Fanjul achieved a seat in the last votes in Spain after counting the vote by mail. At the height of his speech, he has come to state that PP and Cs "are the main force of the constitutionalist center-right".

Because Carlos Iturgaiz is a winged anchor that, though it falls, falls upwards.