Miguel Gallego (PP) has succeeded his father, Julio Gallego (PSOE), because the winner of the municipal elections in Samos (Lugo).
However, the favored doesn’t obtain an absolute majority, so the mayoralty stays up within the air, on the expense of attainable pacts.
The candidacy of Miguel Gallego and the assist of his father, the previous socialist Julio Gallego, has allowed the PP to enhance its outcomes with respect to the 2019 elections, going from two to 4 councilors. The BNG additionally rises, going from one to a few councilors. The PSOE, winner of the final elections, drops from 5 to 2 councilors.
A attainable pact between nationalists and socialists may wrest the mayoralty from the Gallego household.
The flip to the proper of the Gallego household
The story of this father and his son jumped to the nationwide press just a few weeks in the past, turning into one of the curious tales of this electoral marketing campaign.
Miguel Gallego, the son, got here as a shock in March of this yr when he introduced that he was working for mayor of Samos for the PP when his father, Julio Gallego, was the present mayor and represented the PSOE.
It all began final February. The socialist councilor Julio Gallego introduced then that, after 16 years as mayor, he wouldn’t stand for election once more. He was additionally important of his sport. He mentioned that he didn’t assist small city halls. After these demonstrations, the PSOE determined to expel him from the get together.
A couple of weeks later, affirmation arrived that his son was going to go the PP checklist. His father, nonetheless mayor, confirmed him his public assist and, lastly, determined to affix the checklist headed by his son. Of course, within the final place.
Politics is a vocation inside this household since Julio’s father and Miguel’s grandfather, Julio Gallego, was mayor of the city between 1983-1987. Julio handed away this month of January on the age of 95 and couldn’t see how his son and grandson shared an inventory.
Miguel needed to succeed in the mayoralty by a candidacy made up of individuals devoted to the sector. Miguel himself is a rancher and on his checklist there are brigade members, forest laborers and even a Galician beef marker.
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