Spain's left-right draw ends two-party system and marks time of coalitions

Monday, December 21st 2015 - 07:14 UTC

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Spain is heading for a period of difficult coalition-building after Sunday’s elections in which Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservatives came first, but were far short of a majority and with no obvious coalition partner after the centrist Ciudadanos (Citizens) did worse than expected, finishing fourth. Read full article

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Conqueror
Rajoy gets a place because of those spaniards that have no bottle. In the north, Rajoy and the PP can't find a way to live with the Basques. Who are a subjugated people. There's also the Catalans, who are also a subjugated people. Curious that Rajoy can't abandon imperialist colonialism.

Some hundreds of miles away, Britain found it possible to allow the scots to vote for what the people wanted. Should we compare spanish totalitarianism to British democracy? Isn't every latino a crook? Does Rajoy know what honesty means?
Dec 21st, 2015 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Does Rajoy know what honesty means?
No,

but will this new coalition make any difference to spains attitude towards Gibraltar ?
Dec 21st, 2015 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
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Spain should try the amplio frente approach used in Uruguay.

Also known as The BROAD FRAUD, and yes, the clue is in the name.

The Spanish pols would love that.
Dec 21st, 2015 - 08:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@2. It's an interesting question. There were few problems with PSOE in power. Let's draw some parallels. There were few problems in the South Atlantic, after the War, before the Kirchners got in. Same applied to the Mediterranean until Margallo got in. In the first example, a British presence for 325 years. In the second, a British presence for 312 years. In both cases, still there. The Falkland Islanders want little or nothing to do with argieland. The Gibralterians want little or nothing to do with spain. The Kirchners were “populist”. So are Margallo and Rajoy. Margallo rushed off to argieland to consult Timerman on how best to defeat the British. Like Timerman would know. Always a good idea to rush to consult another country incapable of defeating Britain. In neither case is there a valid claim to the territory in question. In neither case are the territories British colonies. Because Britain has moved on. Neither argieland nor spain have. Still stuck in the 18th/19th centuries. Oh and a couple of other things. Both argieland and spain lie to the UN, both refuse to deal directly with the populations of the territories and neither are willing to go to the ICJ. All those similarities. Doesn't it make you wonder that argieland gets to “stack the deck” at the C 24 and Gibraltar's case against spain for defining an environment protection area inside British Gibraltar Territorial Waters is heard by a spanish judge?
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Briton
True.
Dec 23rd, 2015 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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