Spanish General Election 2011

[minionofmidas]

Jesus, that's catastrophic. Didn't even have the upside of a strong IU vote, either.

Compared to what they'd gotten to (ie the brink of extinction)... yes it did.

This looks to be the worst defeat for PSOE (carried only two by the looks)... even worse then 2000 (carried 6)... Looks like Sevilla and Barcelona are the only two Provinces (municipalities? whats the correct term?) to have always voted PSOE (PSC) since 1977...

Provinces. Or circumscriptions, technically. They're identical to the provinces though.

[minionofmidas]

Theirs has always been the stealth approach. Retire from one Spanish institution after another, til your membership in Spain is no more relevant to anything than Britain's in the EU.

[minionofmidas]

PSOE still topped the poll on the island of Gomera, fwiw.

[minionofmidas]

CiU doesn't want independence, similar to how the Lliga didn't want independence either. It basically wants sovereignty-without-the-problems-of-sovereignty and might use self-determinationist rhetoric from time to time for political purposes, but they would probably never hold a direct referendum on independence.

Plaid Catalunya, without the subregional issue.

[minionofmidas]

Basically, if this

Not that the situation is substantially different, we're a couple of weeks from being Greece is immediate action isn't taken.

were literally true... then voting in a new government now would have been tantamount to suicide. Just forming governments don't perform well in crises.

[minionofmidas]

I thought IC was, for all practical purposes, IU's name in Catalunya.
Even in the 70s, they were the PSUC in Catalunya and the PCE elsewhere.