Spanish elections and politics III / Pedro Sánchez faces a new term as PM

[Harlow]

Never expected a political party to make a YTPesque sh*tpost

Content like this is pretty frequent in Latin American politics as well. Supposedly it appeals to young people but it feels like a cringe attempt at being meme-y IMO.

[Harlow]

Does Pauline Hanson even have power or global recognition? One nation has 0 seats.

They have two seats in the senate.

[Harlow]

VOX spokesperson Ignacio Garriga said the party “won’t give away their votes” and that “they’ll do anything for a change of direction” in Spanish politics

Is it just me or do these seem like contradictory statements

[Harlow]

VOX spokesperson Ignacio Garriga said the party “won’t give away their votes” and that “they’ll do anything for a change of direction” in Spanish politics

Is it just me or do these seem like contradictory statements

I read it as VOX will join any government that will oust the PSOE government but will insist on being in said government as opposed to being on the outside.

That makes sense.

I was going to make a joke like "I'd do anything for gov (but I won't do that)"

[Harlow]

PCTE got a little over 17,200 votes while FO got 46,000 votes somehow. Many communist lists did abstain like PCPE and PCEO, but how FO became the best winner among them is odd.

I expect any communist list to improve in the next few elections, a good amount of left wing voters are sick of UP reimagined and PSOE.

Frente Obrero is a red/brown party (we call it "rojipardo"). One of my acquaintances in the PCPE (for your information,
I have met their leader) told me that they expelled FO representatives from some of their events because they are "nazis". Oddly enough the PCPE ran in coalition with a pro-independence group the Canary Islands (they got some
 0.2% running together). The FO leader Roberto Vaquero hates being labelled as rojipardo, but rhe man is basically a reactionary who hates migrants,and feminists. A bully who wears tatoos and leads a weird Stalin cult sect, or perhaps he's a booty camp instructor or leads a paramilitary group. Vaquero studied at Complutense University and Pablo Iglesias was one of his professors. Later Vaquero and his followers have been notorious for harassing people like Yolanda Díaz, Iñigo Errejón and some Podemos representatives.  Beautiful people

Now that would be quite something.

[Harlow]

I have always wondered why the Spanish right wing is so determined to keep Catalonia. It is a gangrenous appendage that only gets in the way and causes putrefaction in the body. What I have always supported is an agreed independence, with UN supervisors. Of course, with the corresponding debt and with vetoes to both NATO and the EU.

It is a fact that, without Catalonia, the right wing would ensure its perpetual victory. The Psoe as a party has disappeared from the rest of Spain, the same with Podemos. To want to keep Catalonia in these conditions is foolishness and masochistic fetishism. Of course the Psoe knows this perfectly well and that is why I believe they would never agree to a referendum.

If the PP became the party that let Catalonia go their usurpation by Vox would be all but guaranteed. Not to mention that it would likely cause a domino effect leading to the Basque country declaring independence, and who knows which other regions in the decades to come. Spain is an incredibly fractured country and the relative success of many of its regionalist parties demonstrates how fragile it is.