The outcome of the Spanish election? Disarray
“I’m going to try to form a government,” said Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy as the results of the national election came in last Sunday night, “but it won’t be easy.” His right-wing People’s Party (PP) still won the most seats in parliament — 129 — but that was far down from the 176 seats it would need for an absolute majority, let alone the 186 it had before the election.
Pablo Iglesias, the man who founded the Podemos (We Can) party only two years ago, agreed with Rajoy on this, if on little else. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking in the name of Podemos,” he told a rally during the campaign.… Seguir leyendo »