Elections in Spain – ElEspectador.com

However, the fact is that the level of responsibility, much less is equitable. The Popular Party, winner of the elections with 123 seats out of a total of 350, was alone in the partisan arena. The result of four years of misrule, cuts and austerity, and weighed down by an endless string of corruption scandals, was able to agree to all Spanish political parties: no one wanted to agree with him. To make matters worse, since the start denied any hint of negotiation that will not happen by presidential endorsement Mariano Rajoy

After the PP, was the PSOE, who with Pedro Sanchez to head obtained, also, the worst result election of the last forty years. The PSOE has been shown as a social democratic party but conservative campaign after the results. So much so that the great problem of an alliance on the left, we finally came impossible, among other things, by the refusal of the Socialists to repeal a labor reform, which attacked campaigning for more flexible and precarious labor market, but they refused to settle later as a political decision. To this agreement that has operated as a straitjacket with another conservative party, Citizens, which contradicted much of the social democratic essence on which the PSOE was inspired, and prevented any real agreement change and progressive turn adds.

we can, with 69 seats, merely to see how the essence of socialist PSOE was fading, and impracticable any alliance on the left. A betrayal of ideals that possibly translate into a change in preferences in the progressive ideological space where we could beat the PSOE in votes, but where the level of fracture can be translated into a negotiating block that hinder the investiture of the new government.

* Doctor in Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid.