{"id":18824,"date":"2015-12-21T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18824"},"modified":"2015-12-21T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T10:38:13","slug":"major-upset-in-spanish-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18824","title":{"rendered":"Major upset in Spanish politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish went to the polls on Sunday to election a new Congress of Deputies and a new Senate.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in anti-austerity Continental European politics, the party of government that had imposed severe budget cuts managed to win the largest share of the votes &#8211; but the People&#8217;s Party lost its overall majority and will now struggle to find the necessary coalition partner(s).<\/p>\n<p>Two new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, have won significant support to provide the largest upset in Spanish politics since the resumption of democracy in the mid 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>You can understand more about what is going on by reading my up-dated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Spanishpoliticalsystem\">guide to the Spanish political system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish went to the polls on Sunday to election a new Congress of Deputies and a new Senate. For the first time in anti-austerity Continental European politics, the party of government that had imposed severe budget cuts managed to win the largest share of the votes &#8211; but the People&#8217;s Party lost its overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18826,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18824\/revisions\/18826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}