The President of the Government of Spain, aka Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today announced that Spain would hold the legislative elections on November 20th.These elections were originally going to take place in March 2012. The Socialist (PSOE) candidate is Alfredo Rubalcaba (left) and Conservative (PP) candidate is Mariano Rajoy. I’m going to write [...]
As predicted, the conservative CiU (Convergence and Union) won the elections in Catalunya, with the worst bofetada (literally meaning a slap in the face) ever for the PSC (Catalan Socialist Party). Mas, leader of the CiU, is just 6 short of a majority in the Parliament of Catalunya. Probably the best option for him is [...]
I’m typing this from a hostel in Lisbon, so allow me to be brief. As I mentioned in my previous post on the Spanish economy, the President of the Government Zapatero canceled all his appointments, meetings and visits in order to present himself to the Congress of Deputies (the Parliament). Congress met specifically to debate [...]
The government is in trouble, its President is struggling with a huge crisis, so the Spanish conservative party, El Partido Popular is getting excited. However, its leader, Mariano Rajoy, has hardly been seen in public over the past few weeks, since the government announced its policy to reform pensions. Though his PP followers are putting [...]
Zapatero, President of the Government of Spain was on top form last night in Malaga, where he made a surprisingly powerful speech to party members. Play it through, even if you don’t understand Spanish. ZP has been the centre-left President of the Government since 2004, and has been fiercely criticised over the fact that Spain has been [...]
Though many aspects of Spain are incredibly backwards, there’s something incredibly modern about their politics. They don’t have silly minority parties like the Lib Dems, they don’t have mad communist parties like in France, and they actually talk about the problems instead of personalities, unlike Britain. What most struck me though, is their campaigning, and I have two main [...]
