Podemos has re-shaped Spanish politics, and the election results solidify the party’s role as a real force in the country’s democracy, despite uncertainty about what the new government will look like (no party won enough seats for an absolute majority).
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Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera said the best solution would be for Rajoy to seek to form a minority government and his party would abstain in a vote to allow that to happen. The newer far-left Podemos Party came in third with 69 seats, while the centrist, business-friendly Ciudadanos Party won 40 seats. A strong showing Sunday by a pair of upstart parties in Spain’s general election upended the country’s traditional two-party system, with the ruling Popular Party winning the most votes but falling far short of a parliamentary majority and at risk of being booted from power.
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The result in Spain suggests the only party able to form a majority with Rajoy would be his historic rivals, the Socialists – but a senior Socialist Party member ruled out a so-called grand coalition on Sunday.
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But the Socialists have reiterated their unwillingness to ease the PP’s return to power as Socialist spokesman César Luena said his party will “vote against the investiture of Mariano Rajoy”. However, Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) will deny conservatives the right to form a government by voting against them.
Having only secured 90 seats of 350 in Spain’s Parliament, Sunday’s election results were the worst-ever in the history of Spain’s Socialist PSOE.
And the prospect of weeks of political uncertainty saw the Spanish stock market slump 2.5 per cent in afternoon trade. So it will be a tough negotiation in the next days but firstly that we can see would be that King Felipe will give the permission to Mr. Rajoy to try that somehow if he can negotiate to find a new government but if not, in another two days we will see that what will be on the leftists’ view.
Former bank employee Eugenio Garcia said the Popular Party and the Socialists are to blame for “disappointment among the people”. The nominee must receive a majority of votes in parliament in a first round to take office, or the most votes in the second round.
But unemployment remains stubbornly high at more than 21 percent, and millions of Spaniards became fed up with austerity-sparked inequality as well as repeated corruption scandals – one of the factors behind the rise of the two new parties.
But school teacher Maribel Martinez, who voted for the Popular Party, was petrified that Spain could descend into political chaos with no stable government for months or an administration run by left-of-center and left-wing parties bent on reversing what Rajoy spent four years accomplishing.
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If negotiations fail and no government is formed within two months after the first vote of confidence, the king will have no other option but to call fresh elections.
