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Lugo Changes Course: PP Takes over After 27 Years of Socialism in the City

Summary by El Confidencial
It has been an annus horribilis for Galician socialism, especially in the province of Lugo, its bastion. First Viveiro lost, in March 2025, via the motion. Then Monforte fell, with the socialist discharge of his historic mayor and former president of the Diputación, José Tomé, entangled in a case of alleged sexual harassment, but still gripped by the cane of command. And this Thursday it was the turn of the city of Lugo. A very painful defeat fo…

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It has been an annus horribilis for Galician socialism, especially in the province of Lugo, its bastion. First Viveiro lost, in March 2025, via the motion. Then Monforte fell, with the socialist discharge of his historic mayor and former president of the Diputación, José Tomé, entangled in a case of alleged sexual harassment, but still gripped by the cane of command. And this Thursday it was the turn of the city of Lugo. A very painful defeat fo…

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The popular gathers the baton of command thanks to the support of the socialist transfer María Reigosa with the seats of PSdeG and BNG empty and with hundreds of people booing her from the streetThe vote of the transfer María Reigosa turns Elena Candia into the first mayor of the PP in Lugo after 27 years While Elena Candia posed for the press with the baton of command, holding the smile beyond humanly possible, the screams that sounded in the b…

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The Mindoniense adds the support of the councilwoman María Reigosa and faces an intense year of mandate until the next municipal elections

The local spokesman and leader of the party in the province has become this Thursday, the fourth leader to have the cane of command in this term

Elena Candia, leader of the PP in Lugo, has become the new mayor of the Galician city after a controversial motion of censure has flourished. This milestone puts an end to 27 consecutive years of leftist governments, all of them with socialist leaders, and has been made possible thanks to the key vote of María Reigosa, an exile of the socialist party that reached the municipal government after the tragic death of one of the three PSOE councillor…

Supporters of the different political parties, on the one hand those on the left and on the other, those on the right, have led moments of tension at the end of the plenary session in which the PP's motion of censure in Lugo has been debated, where there have been cries of recrimination on the one hand and applause on the other.

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Galiciapress broke the news on Thursday, May 7, 2026.
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