I know some of you sad buffers will find this interesting. We have elections this year, all bloody year, starting with Andalucía next month, then all the states and cities elect mayors, councils and state presidents in May, except Catalunya who go in the autumn, and general election by November.
At the moment we have what adds up to a four way tie with each national party on around 20%, according to the latest polls. The incumbent governing party (PP, blue) and the principal opposition party (PSOE, red) have never, I think, finished an election campaign at such a low percentage score. The other two parties are essentially new parties, Podemos (mauve) and Ciudadanos (orange). They've benefitted electorally from the continuing economic crisis and the exposure of some spectacular crooked practices in the two big parties, especially the PP.
Podemso arose from the street protests and is finding it pretty hard to adjust to being a political party - they are devoid of policies in some fairly important areas (like employment) and the grass roots are not at all sure that they are keen on the idea of having leaders and policies. Ciudadanos is an interesting one - it arose in Catalunya as the non-catalan nationalist, catalan party; and it looks like it can take votes from the left wing of the PP, and from most disaffected PSOE voters, as well as possibly being more likely to reach a coalition agreement with more different parties if it were to turn out to be the most voted for option.
Some might think it would be interesting to have the pragmatic catalans governing Spain. Podemos and Ciudadanos are, of course, untainted by corruption scandals given that neither party has ever governed anywhere; so if people take their distaste for corruption into the ballot box, we may see some interesting results.
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At the moment we have what adds up to a four way tie with each national party on around 20%, according to the latest polls. The incumbent governing party (PP, blue) and the principal opposition party (PSOE, red) have never, I think, finished an election campaign at such a low percentage score. The other two parties are essentially new parties, Podemos (mauve) and Ciudadanos (orange). They've benefitted electorally from the continuing economic crisis and the exposure of some spectacular crooked practices in the two big parties, especially the PP.
Podemso arose from the street protests and is finding it pretty hard to adjust to being a political party - they are devoid of policies in some fairly important areas (like employment) and the grass roots are not at all sure that they are keen on the idea of having leaders and policies. Ciudadanos is an interesting one - it arose in Catalunya as the non-catalan nationalist, catalan party; and it looks like it can take votes from the left wing of the PP, and from most disaffected PSOE voters, as well as possibly being more likely to reach a coalition agreement with more different parties if it were to turn out to be the most voted for option.
Some might think it would be interesting to have the pragmatic catalans governing Spain. Podemos and Ciudadanos are, of course, untainted by corruption scandals given that neither party has ever governed anywhere; so if people take their distaste for corruption into the ballot box, we may see some interesting results.
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