MALLORCA TODAY - PP wins Balearics election

The Partido Popular appears to have won the regional election in the Balearics, with an absolute majority. More will follow.

The PP would seem to have also secured the Council of Mallorca and Palma council with overall majorities.


The PP would appear to have 33 seats in the regional government parliament, thus giving the party overall majority. This would represent an increase of five seats, but the percentage of the vote, compared with 2007, is virtually unaltered. PSOE, the socialist party of now former President Antich has lost two seats and a drop in the percentage of the vote of nearly 5%. The third most popular party grouping is the left led by the PSM, Mallorcan socialists, but they will stick with four seats and a similar percentage of the vote (down slightly in fact), Other parties, such as the old Unió Mallorquina, now the Convergència, seem to have been wiped out.

ALCUDIA: The PP has secured eight seats in the local council and 39% of the votes, but this doesn't secure the mayor's post for Coloma Terrasa. The CxI of Miguel Llompart has four seats and just under 23%. Llompart could well hang on.

POLLENSA: The PP has the most votes, the highest percentage of the vote and five seats in the town hall, but the mayoral position is wide open. La Lliga and the Alternativa have three seats and respective percentages of 17 and 13%.


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POLLENSA: The Alternativa has two councillors with a 12% share. La Lliga has three with 16%. PSOE and the Convergència have two councillors apiece. Wide open for the mayor's job.

REGIONAL PARLIAMENT: PP has 34 seats, a majority of three. PSOE has 14 seats. The PP will form the new government, and José Bauzá is the new president of the Balearics.


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SANTA MARGALIDA: The CPU (Can Picafort Unit) has increased the number of its councillors by two to six in all. The PP has lost one, down to four, and a share of the vote, which doesn't bode well for Martí Torres, the mayor prior to the election, but in association with the CPU, he may well hang on. The independents and PSOE alliance has five councillors, but this is down one on their combined totals in 2007.

MURO: The Convergència Democràtica Murera has four councillors, half the number needed for an absolute majority. With its PP allies, for which there are two councillors, Martí Fornes is likely to stay on as mayor, but the CxI (the former Unió Mallorquina) and a combination of other parties could draw this into question.

ALCUDIA: The CxI of Miguel Llompart has seen its number of councillors cut by three from 2007 when, as the UM, it had seven councillors, more than any other party. A combination of CxI, PSOE and PSM should see Llompart pushed over the line as, between them, they have nine councillors to the PP's eight. The absolute majority required was ten.

COUNCIL OF MALLORCA: María Salom will be the new president of the Council, the PP having obtained an absolute majority with 19 councillors.


Bauzá, Salom, Isern all win for the PP
The Partido Popular, as expected, has won a convincing victory in elections for the regional parliament of the Balearics, the Council of Mallorca and Palma town hall. José Bauzá will become the new president of the Balearics, María Salom, the new president of the Council and Mateo Isern, the new mayor of Palma.

The PP has secured 34 seats in the regional parliament, an overall majority of three. With 19 councillors, it has also won the Council and, and with 17 it has secured Palma.


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The PP has 35 seats in the regional parliament. PSOE has 14 and others together amount to 10.

ALCUDIA: The PP, which has won the election in Alcúdia with eight councillors, may now pact with the CxI, which would mean the CxI dropping its previous association with PSOE. Were this new coalition to be formed, it could still mean that Miguel Llompart stays as mayor, though the odds must be on Coloma Terrasa taking over.