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After the country’s municipal elections in May 2023, perceived as a plebiscite on the government, President Pedro Sánchez called for general elections.
Regional elections in Spain and the success of the right has made Pedro Sánchez bring forward general elections to the 23rd of July.
Spain’s proposed coalition could succeed, even without a majority in parliament.
Since 2015, Spanish politics has lived on a roller coaster. Catalonia, article 155, the motion of censure in the government, the rise of the far-right. The suspense, after this election, is assured.
Sánchez seeks to build alliances but not a formal coalition as the Socialists win but fall short of an absolute majority.
With the big parties under pressure from regional forces, it’s hard to see how anyone could form a government on April 28.
A strange coincidence of historical circumstances in Spain could, taken together, help to bring about a resolution to the crisis in Catalonia.
Bid for Catalonian independence brings return of a divided Spain.
Social democratic parties across the continent are struggling for different reasons. They can learn from each other to bounce back.
Podemos positioned itself as leading a revolt by the people against the political system. Now, as Spain’s third-largest party, it is part of that system and has some difficult decisions to make.
After two elections and months of deadlock, a minority administration has been agreed. But the situation is far from stable.
Labour’s leader has a renewed mandate to put his party at the vanguard of the left – but others have walked that road before.
With two votes failing to produce a government, caretaker PM Mariano Rajoy is running out of options.
Spain couldn’t form a government after its last election, so it had to try again. And it looks like the radicals are shut out.
As Spain found out at its last election, voting for change is one thing, but achieving it is quite another.
Parliamentarians have again failed to form a coalition, nearly three months after the election.
Spain’s two-party system is now consigned to the history books – but forming a functional government will be anything but easy.
Spain’s era of two-party government is coming to an end – but what exactly happens next is far from clear.
Catalonia’s pro-independence parties now have the chance to assemble a parliamentary majority, but they’ll have to overcome their own differences first.
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