Spain’s Election Explained: Why the Right Failed

Something that wasn't mentioned is why many of the regional and pro independence parties are very unlikely to support a government that includes Vox. Is no so much that they are far right, as some of this parties are close to PP ideologically, but Vox takes a hard line against pro independence movements and the decentralized nature of Spain's governments (autonomías).

The fact the formation of the Spanish government comes down to a Catalonia separatist party adds some comedy to me.

To quote Otto von Bismarck, "I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success"

As an Italian, seeing the current polical climate in europe Deeply troubles me. Political Chaos was supposed to be OUR Shtick, not everyone else's! This is obviusly plagiarism

One thing you're missing big. Of the smaller parties, only CC and UPN support PP. Every other party excluding VOX does not like them, and even the more "right-wing" parties that make up Sánchez's alliance have already rejected not just supporting Feijóo, they rejected even negotiating anything with them. Feijóo really has no way of becoming PM, so it's either Sánchez or new elections

Sorry, in Spain we only play politics in hardcore difficulty

I am missing a few points: - Psoe has won a couple more seats and has stop the trend towards the right that was happening along the year. - Junts has lost seats, much like all the independentist movement in favor of Psoe, so even if they say the will demand a referendum, they are in danger of losing even more seats in a second voting. - PP expected way more seats than the got. - Vox has lost many seats in their hearthlands, in Castilla where they were setting their”pilot flat” (meaning their model).

“Winning doesn’t matter, what matter is that everyone else loses” - Spain, probably

I just wish everyone living in Spain all the best! ❤

It has been actually a victory for Sanchez for he was declared dead after the local elections. Now he only strengthened his position in parliament and got his divided leftwing allies together preventing them from collapsing. Moreover, he's the only able to form alliances with the regional parties since all of them fear and loath Vox. Feijóo was set to win and his failure despite the tremendous growth of his party in seats can cost him his leadership.

Gotta say, a political system like this is probably more democratic than the American two party system. you can actually vote for different degree of left wing or right wing policies. While in US you have Biden and AOC in same party, and Trump and John Kasich in same party (until recently at least)

You can't just say "PP-party" and expect me not to giggle

Meanwhile Macron: "Wait, you need a majority to form a government?"

Just to clarify. The process of investiture works as follows: first, the king has to select a candidate to try and form a government. This candidate has two tries, in the first one, he has to obtain an absolute majority in congress, but in the second one, which takes place two days latter, he only needs a simple majority. What this means is that neither of them actually need the support of Junts, and their abstention would be enough. I know it was explained in the video, but a lot of emphasis was made in the absolute majority part of the voting and I think it might have been a bit misleading.

The Spanish elections were closely followed here in Chile. Politic analysts think our politicians "mimic" Spanish ones, with a delay... Boric followed Podemos, Kast is following VOX, etc. So this result is interesting as it apparently shows the center in both blocks is pretty strong...our Republicanos (ultra-right, that have become popular lately) were clearly unhappy with the bad results of VOX, the guys that are so toxic for most other parties in Spain, that makes PP's victory look pyrric. I think most people want politicians to negotiate and compromise to actually resolve important social issues, instead of fighting and screaming to appear "stronger". I hope this influences our extremes to start compromising, as our political environment currently is horribly toxic and divisive

As an American, I am so jealous of your multi party system.

With my limited knowledge of this beforehand, basically both main parties gained a bit, especially the PP, but on both sides right wing and left wing parties gained and dropped. So no one has a majority and it’s like stuck in limbo

It's nice to hear the news from an english speaker. I feel like "omg they acknowledge my country!"

well one thing is for sure, Spanish politics is never boring

I honestly can't see any scenario where the Catalonians side with a PP/Vox coalition 😅