{"id":24563,"date":"2019-05-11T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T07:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24563"},"modified":"2019-05-11T08:29:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T07:29:06","slug":"whats-going-on-in-spanish-politics-with-three-general-elections-in-just-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24563","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going on in Spanish politics with three general elections in just four years?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For four decades, the political institutions of Spain have been fought over by two major parties that reflected the Centre-Right\/Centre-Left divisions in so much of European politics &#8211; a system known in Spain as&nbsp;<em>&#8220;bipartidismo&#8221;<\/em>. But chronic corruption in the political system and the economic crisis of recent years following the global downturn, which saw a double dip recesssion and unemployment peaking at 26%, has led to the perceived failure of the two establishment parties and given rise to tumultuous electoral change that is still working its way through the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spain is a country deeply divided along several political clevages: Right-wing vs Left-wing, old parties vs new parties, centralist vs federalist. Consequently, the Spanish political landscape is in a state of profound flux and the general elections of December 2015, June 2016 and April 2019 &#8211; three polls in just four years &#8211; represented a major upset to the political establishment of the nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After six months with a caretaker government between the first two of these elections, following the second election, there was a further period of 10 months with another caretaker government, before the People&#8217;s Party was allowed to form a minority administration which fell in June 2018. Now the most recent election has failed to return a party with an overall majority and coalition talks are in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For an explanation of how the Spanish political system works and the result of the recent general election, check out my guide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Spanishpoliticalsystem\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For four decades, the political institutions of Spain have been fought over by two major parties that reflected the Centre-Right\/Centre-Left divisions in so much of European politics &#8211; a system known in Spain as&nbsp;&#8220;bipartidismo&#8221;. But chronic corruption in the political system and the economic crisis of recent years following the global downturn, which saw a [&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-24563","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\/24563","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=24563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24568,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24563\/revisions\/24568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}