NEW MAN AT TOP

A GIANT swing to the right has seen Ximo Puig swept from power in regional elections.

Carlos Mazon is the new president of Valencia, after his PP party more than doubled its seats in Les Corts.

In a stunning victory he got 40 seats - up 21 on the 2019 elections - and with the aid of far-right party Vox (13 seats) he has an easy majority.

It comes as Ciudadanos and Podemos were wiped out in the weekend’s regional and local elections. Neither got a single seat, failing to poll the minimum of 5% under election rules.

They lost 18 and eight seats respectively, while Puig’s PSOE socialists got 31 seats and Compromis got 15. In his resignation speech, Puig insisted he was leaving Valencia ‘stronger’ than when he came to power in 2015.

Mazon promised a ‘stable’ government for everybody, ‘whether they voted for us or not’.

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