Because Spain is center-left socially. And because there are still people alive who remember Franco’s terrorist regime.
Are they not? Just because the far right party lost does not mean the trend of the other party changed
Because the small independentist parties make up 20% of the vote.
Because they’re not stupid.
Because the far-right also wants to cut public spending which would make socio-economic problems much worse obviously.
Because older people still remember the Franco terror regime.
Because young people are socially liberal and don’t want to revert back to becoming some sort of catholic dictatorship that oppresses women and the LGBTQ community.
Because climate change is already having a serious effect on Spain with drastic heatwaves and serious drought issues.
Because the right has nothing to offer but their endless cavalcade of resentful grievances.
Because Catalonia and Basque Country doesn’t vote for the right-wing even remotely to the extent as the rest of the country. PP and Vox won 13.6% (9 of 66) of the seats in those constituencies. In the 45 constituencies in the rest of the country, they won 56.3% (160 of 284) of the seats.
Because the Far right is a fucking shit show and rabid billionaire owned press can only compensate for that so much
How are they not, aren’t Vox above 10%?
Because its bowing to the left?
Ive seen far too many Spanish spreading the miracles of socialism in eastern European subs.
A nation that has had a fascist dictatorship for 40 years which ended approximately just one generation ago. You know, that dictatorship and its horrors about which Spanish society just recently started to speak about and to overcome the collective trauma it inflicted.
Spanish people don’t want to return to those old times. Those times that left a painful scar in every family.
Came awfully close though. Seven seats from PP/VOX supermajority. Will likely be the Basques and Catalans that keep Sánchez in power.
Because the Far-Right only succeeds in opposition.
Once they actually take office or form a coalition government in a democratic country that has laws for gender equality and union protections for workers, they inevitably target these things which affects a minimum of 50% of the population who will ensure they serve no more than 1 term.
They can’t help themselves because they are ideologues who do all the austerity of a Centre-Right government with additional backward steps on other rights.
We have seen it in the US. Abortion was the Right’s major issue, and since Roe has been overturned which guaranteed the right to abortion, we saw in 2022 that women in particular went out and voted for those that would protect abortion, with every Pro-Choice ballot initiative passing and every Pro-Life ballot initiative failing; as well as the Democrats doing remarkably well in a Midterm where it seemed they would lose heaps.
Once the Far-Right has victories, people become more politically engaged as they realise how dangerous it is. The Spanish Voters saw through VOX and wanted to make sure they didn’t even get 1 term.
Because Spain’s hegemonic conservative party, the Partido Popular (PP), has veered so far to the right that it has bought into most of the postulates of the extreme right, which has deactivated VOX.
And let’s not forget that VOX was always a spin-off from the PP. Abascal, the leader of VOX, was a PP politician for decades and founded VOX the day he was kicked out of his position in the PP. VOX voters are disenchanted former PP voters who are now returning to the PP.
And before anyone comes saying that PP is a center-right party, a centre-right party does not question a clean, open and easily auditable electoral process. A centre-right party does not buy MPs to bring down the government. A centre-right party does not call a democratically elected Prime Minister a felon, illegitimate or terrorist.
The real answer is: because the center-right stepped up…
Spain remembers Francos regime.
Spain is a progresist country.
Spain has a lot of regionalism and those wont vote a centralist.
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Because Spain is center-left socially. And because there are still people alive who remember Franco’s terrorist regime.
Are they not? Just because the far right party lost does not mean the trend of the other party changed
Because the small independentist parties make up 20% of the vote.
Because they’re not stupid.
Because the far-right also wants to cut public spending which would make socio-economic problems much worse obviously.
Because older people still remember the Franco terror regime.
Because young people are socially liberal and don’t want to revert back to becoming some sort of catholic dictatorship that oppresses women and the LGBTQ community.
Because climate change is already having a serious effect on Spain with drastic heatwaves and serious drought issues.
Because the right has nothing to offer but their endless cavalcade of resentful grievances.
Because Catalonia and Basque Country doesn’t vote for the right-wing even remotely to the extent as the rest of the country. PP and Vox won 13.6% (9 of 66) of the seats in those constituencies. In the 45 constituencies in the rest of the country, they won 56.3% (160 of 284) of the seats.
Because the Far right is a fucking shit show and rabid billionaire owned press can only compensate for that so much
How are they not, aren’t Vox above 10%?
Because its bowing to the left?
Ive seen far too many Spanish spreading the miracles of socialism in eastern European subs.
A nation that has had a fascist dictatorship for 40 years which ended approximately just one generation ago. You know, that dictatorship and its horrors about which Spanish society just recently started to speak about and to overcome the collective trauma it inflicted.
Spanish people don’t want to return to those old times. Those times that left a painful scar in every family.
Came awfully close though. Seven seats from PP/VOX supermajority. Will likely be the Basques and Catalans that keep Sánchez in power.
Because the Far-Right only succeeds in opposition.
Once they actually take office or form a coalition government in a democratic country that has laws for gender equality and union protections for workers, they inevitably target these things which affects a minimum of 50% of the population who will ensure they serve no more than 1 term.
They can’t help themselves because they are ideologues who do all the austerity of a Centre-Right government with additional backward steps on other rights.
We have seen it in the US. Abortion was the Right’s major issue, and since Roe has been overturned which guaranteed the right to abortion, we saw in 2022 that women in particular went out and voted for those that would protect abortion, with every Pro-Choice ballot initiative passing and every Pro-Life ballot initiative failing; as well as the Democrats doing remarkably well in a Midterm where it seemed they would lose heaps.
Once the Far-Right has victories, people become more politically engaged as they realise how dangerous it is. The Spanish Voters saw through VOX and wanted to make sure they didn’t even get 1 term.
Because Spain’s hegemonic conservative party, the Partido Popular (PP), has veered so far to the right that it has bought into most of the postulates of the extreme right, which has deactivated VOX.
And let’s not forget that VOX was always a spin-off from the PP. Abascal, the leader of VOX, was a PP politician for decades and founded VOX the day he was kicked out of his position in the PP. VOX voters are disenchanted former PP voters who are now returning to the PP.
And before anyone comes saying that PP is a center-right party, a centre-right party does not question a clean, open and easily auditable electoral process. A centre-right party does not buy MPs to bring down the government. A centre-right party does not call a democratically elected Prime Minister a felon, illegitimate or terrorist.
The real answer is: because the center-right stepped up…
Spain remembers Francos regime.
Spain is a progresist country.
Spain has a lot of regionalism and those wont vote a centralist.