Repeated elections benefit fascists
- The PSOE has emerged a little weaker from the repetition of the Spanish elections and the votes of 10 November have brought a great rise of the fascists of Vox: they are already the third force.
Pedro Sánchez did not play well: When he convened these elections on 10 November, he had a clear objective, to reach 30% of the votes and to strengthen his position as the main party in the Spanish state. It has not succeeded, as the PSOE has achieved results similar to those of the last elections in this repetition in November. In addition, it has suffered a small loss: It's gone from 123 to 120.
The United Nations Podemos coalition has lost seven Members and has once again reached out to the PSOE to form a progressive government, which Sánchez called upon after ruling out this possibility, but it does not seem to be materialising in view of the problems that existed to govern in coalition when conditions were better.
The main developments, however, have taken place on the right side of Congress: The pp has been strengthened from these votes, as it has risen from 66 Members in April to 88 Members. But the biggest boom has occurred in the neo-fascist party Vox, which in April won 24 seats in the party of Santiago Abascal, which is now going to have more than double. With these results, Spain has become a European state with one of the strongest right-wing extremes.
Both increases might seem at the expense of this evening’s biggest loser: The Citizens’ Party, a party plundered by the economic powers in Spain when bipartisanship was wobbling, has gone from 57 to 10 Members and has become the biggest loser of the night. The party leader, Albert Rivera, has called for an extraordinary executive on Monday, in view of the few results he has achieved.
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