Spanish General Election 2011

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Gracias a Dios (that's "Thank God" in Spanish) for Teddy's translation.

I especially look forward to the reaction of Our Man in Ottawa.

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Time gentlemen, please.

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Some immediate historical perspective.

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God, that hurts.

On the comparatively bright side, the long term mild leftwards movement in Galicia hasn't been reversed, I guess. That's all I can think of right now...

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On the other hand, the new government will presumably be fairly unpopular by then.

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Next March? How do you figure?

How likely is this government to get a honeymoon period, exactly? But then I won't pretend to understand the Spanish electorate(s), so this is more... I don't know... general speculation. And I suppose the PSOE will remain somewhat on the discredited side. Maybe the IU will do very well.

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Does anyone know if any ministers or cabinet officials lost their seats? Usually with a loss that big you would expect that to happen.

No minister lost his/her seat;) They are usually number 1 or 2 in the lists for Congress, so it's almost impossible (the minister of interior could have lost his seat if PP had got more than 65% of the vote in Zamora, but he didn't).

Yes; this is one of the issues sometimes raised against closed list PR (especially in Italy during the DC era).

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