Spain is living an era of political chaos: in the last four years, Spanish citizens have voted four times. In addition, the Catalonian conflict and the shadow of a new crisis are overflying the Spanish political scene.
From the point of view prosperity, this situation is a tragedy. But, if you love politics and economics like I do, the Spanish panorama is a show that you don’t want to miss.
In this blog, I am going to try to explain in a simple manner what is going on in the Iberian Peninsula and how it got there. Enjoy!
Read the posts in this order:
1. 2008 crisis: the beginning of a butterfly effect
2. The end of bipartidism: where Spanish politics get interesting
3. 2015: a double match election
4. Pedro Sánchez: the political Phoenix
5. 2019: déjà vu in the Spanish election(s)
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2008 crisis: the beginning of a butterfly effect
From a dictatorship to the European Union In 1939, the Spanish Civil War was over. The rebel side won and transformed the Spanish Republic into a dictatorship and Francisco Franco, who lead the military uprising, became the dictator. The first decades were a stage of famine and poverty: the government tried to create a self-efficient… Read more
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2019: déjà vu in the Spanish election(s)
4 parties were not enough Let’s do a recap about the main parties in Spain: from left to right, we had Podemos (extreme left), PSOE (center-left), Ciudadanos (center) and PP (center-right). This was the starting position of the Spanish political spectrum, but we will see in this post how, along 2019, the different parties are… Read more
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Pedro Sánchez: the political Phoenix
Getting the support of the basis Doing a brief recap of the previous post, the political situation of Spain in 2016 was the following: PP got to Moncloa (the Spanish Whitehouse) thanks to the support of Ciudadanos and the white vote of PSOE. Since, Pedro Sánchez kept saying his typical “no es no” to Rajoy’s… Read more
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2015: a double match election
Time to form a government Once the Spanish citizens have voted, it’s time to form a government. In the Spanish system, the different parties decide who will be the one that leads the country. For a party to govern, it must count with an absolute majority (more than a half of the seats must support… Read more
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The end of bipartidism: where Spanish politics get interesting
Podemos: the party born on 15M As we saw in the previous post, the Spanish crisis created a mix of situations that lead to the movement called 15M. This movement was created by anonymous organizations that wanted to change the country from the basis. The peaceful demonstrations were a complete success with a participation and… Read more
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