Donostia-San Sebastian. The results of last Sunday's elections in the Basque Autonomous Community are already known with the provisional vote count as follows: PNV (31 seats), EH Bildu (22), PSE-EE (10), Elkarrekin-Podemos (6), PP (5), Vox (1). These are provisional, because the votes of Basques in the Diaspora will be announced this Friday and this, in fact, could cause variations, specifically in Bizkaia, allowing a seat to remain in EH Bildu or to pass into the hands of the PP, who would thus achieve its second parliamentary representative for Bizkaia.
The definitive results that will be officially published next Friday, will tell if the last parliamentary seat in Bizkaia continues in the hands of EH Bildu, or if it passes to PP. The PP needs 108 votes for this to happen, and so the voting results from abroad will be the determining factor, one way or the other.
This is not the first time that votes cast abroad have been decisive and that in past general elections, without going much further, Diaspora votes along with a bunch of electoral tables, decided the last deputy for Bizkaia that had initially been awarded to the PNV, passed for 126 votes to the hands of the PP.
3.065 votes abroad
In the last Parliamentary elections held on July 12th, 2,672 people living abroad voted by mail from the Diaspora and 393 in person. For people in various countries voting is very difficult, even if they want to participate and request the required ballots ahead of time, since ballots often arrive late and with the entire process being even slower and more complicated this year, due to the Coronavirus, with quarantines, limitations and health protocols in place it was even more so.
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