Looks like another eagerly-anticipated “Red wave” has failed to roll ashore.
No clear victor in Spanish election as results defy predictions
Spain appears destined for painful political negotiations after Sunday’s elections, when no single party won enough parliamentary seats to form a government. Prospects for coalition-building now remain uncertain.With over 99% of the vote counted, the center-right Partido Popular (PP) is set to come in first, winning 136 seats. The upstart far-right Vox party, a possible coalition partner to PP, is forecast to win 33 seats.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s ruling center-left Socialist party meanwhile is on course to win 122 seats, with likely coalition partners Sumar at 31 seats.
Calling Sunday’s vote was a political gamble for Sanchez, after his party suffered major setbacks in regional and local elections in May. The PP that month made huge gains, amid a surge toward the right in European politics across the continent.
Most polls predicted that PP would win the most votes on Sunday, but fall short of an absolute majority in Parliament, meaning it would likely have to form a coalition with the far-right Vox party.
Such an arrangement would have courted controversy by ushering a far-right party enter government for the first time in decades. But Sunday’s nailbiting vote count offered no easy path for a rightwing coalition to be formed.
Has the Leftist penchant for “election”-rigging taken root in Spain now too? Actually, it’s not as far-fetched an idea as it may seem at first blush, since as we know the Evil Left, not just here but all across Western Civ, has been working since at least the late 1960s from the same Marxist playbook.
One wonders if Spain also uses Dominion?
If not, guaranteed something like it or the “counters” are corrupt.
My wife filled out a paper ballot that then went into an envelope and then the ballot box. I have no idea how it’s done in other parts of Spain but I have seen no reference to voting machines.
As for mail-in ballots, although more were cast this time around, the process is very controlled. You have to go to the post office and show foto ID to get one. You fill it out there, stuff it in the envelope provided and then hand it back.
How many weeks are voting now?
The postal unions are all-in-on ballot stuffing. But they also ballot toss.
No one expects the Spanish Indecision.
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