2025 Extremaduran regional election

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A regional election was held in Extremadura on 21 December 2025 to elect the 12th Assembly of the autonomous community. All 65 seats in the Assembly were up for election. This marked the first time that an Extremaduran president exercised the legal prerogative to call a snap election. The 2023 election had seen the People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox party form a coalition under the presidency of María Guardiola, but not before she was forced to backtrack after having pledged not to let the latter into her cabinet. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), who was ousted from power only for the second time in history, saw a leadership change from Guillermo Fernández Vara—who died from stomach cancer in October 2025—to the then-president of the provincial deputation of Badajoz, Miguel Ángel Gallardo. The PP–Vox coalition collapsed in July 2024 over a strategic movement from the latter's national leadership, with Guardiola leading a minority government from that point onwards. Amid...

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