The spaniards will remember in 2016 as the year in which they lived without Government. The election night of December 20, 2015 gave way to an uncertain political phase in which the lock was the protagonist for more than ten months.
And it had to wait until 29 October 2016 to endow a chief Executive. After two failed attempts and two electoral events, the conservative Mariano Rajoy, they backed up their charge thanks to the Socialist Party (PSOE), to which the decision to let him rule happened -and is still happening – bill.
Rajoy was one of the great protagonists of this political year in Spain, but he shared covers with the socialist Pedro Sanchez, who had to leave the helm of his party in the middle of a fratricidal war, and with the leaders we Can and Citizens, the leftist Pablo Iglesias and the liberal Albert Rivera, two new actors that, with their strong emergence in the Parliament, they changed the rules of the Spanish policy.
All of them, the four, crossed proposals, critiques, and red lines tagalog months, but were unable to reach an agreement to form a Government after the elections held a year ago.
The spaniards will remember in 2016 as the year we lived without a Government, but also as the year in which they had to repeat their trip to the polls, six months after you have voted.
After a dictatorship of almost 40 years (1936-1939) and more than three decades of bipartisanship in Spain, the fragmentation of the Parliament following the entry of new parties as we Can and Citizens and the difficulty to form majorities led to an unusual situation: the call for new elections.
Rajoy won the December 2015, but without an absolute majority. A month later, without the certainty of being able to add the adequate support to get back to the front of the Executive, declined to take to the king Felipe VI, the task of forming the Government, becoming the first Spanish candidate to do so.
Before his withdrawal, the leader of the opposition, the socialist Pedro Sanchez, decided to try their luck to form a Government, “progressive” and alternative to Rajoy.
But his plans did not turn out well. After several unsuccessful attempts, he failed to gather the support for simultaneous Can and of Citizens in the Congress of Deputies, by which the investiture, held at the beginning of march, was unsuccessful.
The image of the king of Spain, signing the call for new elections on 2 may form a part of the story. I had never before happened something like that in Spain.
The big winner of this second election date was Rajoy, the only candidate who won support with respect to the December.
All election polls were wrong. We, who sought to overtake the PSOE and be in second place thanks to its coalition with United Left (IU), was again relegated to third, which allowed Sanchez to hold the type in spite of the poor results and the internal reviews that are already received.
The arithmetic, however, continued to be favorable to the formation of a Government, even after the agreement reached between the Popular Party (PP) of Rajoy and Citizens. The Parliament remained equally fragmented and bans not falling.
At the end of August, Rajoy starred in the second endowment failed in the recent history of Spain, only a few months after the Sanchez. The conservative leader failed to win the support of a PSOE increasingly divivido and the country was thrust into a new time trial to form a Government with the fear of a third-party general elections in the air.
The turning point were the regional elections in Galicia and the Basque Country, held on the 25th of September. While the PP was reinforced with his great triumph in Galicia, the PSOE (socialist party received a drubbing in both regions was very touched to their leader.
The war in the bosom of the PSOE, until then dimmed, became official and the dissatisfaction of some sectors with Sanchez went afloat. Half of the dome of the training resigned to try to force the departure of their leader in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that left the party divided in two: on the one hand, the faithful Sanchez and his opposition to Rajoy and, on the other, those in favor of leave to rule the conservative to break the political blockade in Spain.
Without the support of the majority, Sanchez was forced to resign and the party was in the hands of a manager who took one of the most important decisions and most difficult in its 137-year history: to abstain in the vote of investiture of Rajoy and allow him to govern in minority.
The oath of the leader of the PP to Felipe VI on the 31st of October opened a new political era in Spain, with a minority Government and forced to negotiate and to reach agreements with the forces parliamentarians to take forward laws and proposals.
however, the paralysis, the blockade and, above all, the low height of a view of the matches for months, plunged to the Spanish policy in a crisis. The spaniards will remember in 2016 as the year we lived without a Government, but also as the year in which you became angry with their political leaders and were disappointed.
Now, ahead of the 2017, the formations face the test of fire: see if you are able to engage in dialogue and to put aside their own interests to make politics of truth. It remains to be seen how long the new legislature.
By Ana Lázaro Green (dpa)
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