Murcian regional election, 2019
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The 2019 Murcian regional election is scheduled to be held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Regional Assembly of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. All 45 seats in the Regional Assembly will be up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least seven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.
In the aftermath of the 2015 election, the People's Party and Citizens signed a confidence and supply agreement which allowed Pedro Antonio Sánchez to be elected as new President of the Region of Murcia. As part of the PP–Cs agreement, one of the newly elected Assembly's first initiatives was to increase the proportionality of the regional electoral system by scrapping the sub-provincial constituencies and lowering the required threshold from 5% to 3%.
A political crisis unveiled in the community after Pedro Antonio Sánchez was accused of several corruption offences on 20 February 2017. The scandal involved an ongoing judicial investigation on alleged irregularities in the process of awarding, construction and reception of an auditorium in Puerto Lumbreras, town from which Sánchez had been mayor between 2003 and 2013. While Sánchez had repeatedly assured he would resign right away if he was ever judicially charged for any crimes, he refused to do so after learning of his indictment despite Cs calls. Subsequently, Cs withdrew its parliamentary support, leaving the PP in minority and threatening to support a censure motion on Sánchez promoted by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Podemos. The PP accused Cs of breaking their agreement and of "playing with fire", with parties hinting at the possibility that a snap election could be eventually called by Sánchez in order to prevent his removal.
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