The leftist Sumar and IU parties threatened to leave the government if the contract was executed, so the “socdem” PSOE has canceled the contract.
The leftist Sumar and IU parties threatened to leave the government if the contract was executed, so the “socdem” PSOE has canceled the contract.
i hope this leads to a socdem purge and socialists taking full power
The center left socdem party has the most seats in the coalition and leads the government, they canceled the deal so that the far-left junior partners wouldn’t pull support and collapse the government probably. No purging or taking power is happening.
And if the government did collapse and elections happened the left (divided between Sumar and Podemos) wouldn’t really gain from it, and it could very well lead to a right-wing majority.
I honestly doubt Sumar or even Podemos would have collapsed the government. I could see however IU collapsing Sumar due to this issue.
Thats so cool on the leftist parts tho. Democrats should take notes about how to weild power.
Not so much the broader democratic party (their equivalent to the PSOE in this situation), I don’t think they have anything to learn here, but there have been plenty of situations where the Squad congressmembers have been in these situations where they could play hardball and withold their votes for something not to pass, but they have never done that
This is what I meant. Thanks for providing a much clearer articulation.
I don’t think it’s applicable to the Dems’ case, if Sumar didn’t exist, PSOE wouldn’t have done anything.
Oh absolutely agree.
If IU didnt exist*
true
Well, more like “the leftists in a party within a party within the goverment coalition”.
Still good tho.
Lol, lmao
let a girl dream
:yea:
The historical moment sucks in Spain in that regard. It’s been less than 10 years since the Podemos fiasco, the tendency in Spain right now is towards the strengthening of a two-party + regional hinge parties congress. People were hopeful of change for the better with Podemos, but a mixture of inaction by the party, incapability of governing due to the PSOE not allowing a coalition with Podemos in the first elections in which Podemos got big votes, and fabricated campaigns of funding from Venezuela and Iraq to Podemos by the national police, the right wing higher spheres in the internal affairs ministry and the private media, essentially burned Podemos from the 3rd biggest party of the country into insignificance, and the reaction of most people has been to become apolitical and cynical.
My only hope is that this wave of disregard for institutional politics becomes a breeding ground for activism and labour movement, but the big unions like CCOO and UGT are very much not collaborating in that direction and have been very much co-opted by the PSOE and by legalism instead of activism and labor movement. Unions in Spain have effectively been turned into a way to get a lawyer and information about your current rights, than entities for the struggle for worker’s rights.
Nah, this moment only sucks for the central leftist parties. Both Bildu and the BNG are the strongest they have ever been.
Change in Spain will only come from a federalist coalition of leftist parties.
Change in Spain will not come from the institutions, whether federal or regional. BNGa and Bildu both have quite wide popular support in Galicia and Euskal Herria, and they’re even arguably very grassroots and have a lot of basis in local democracy and activism. However, they’re fundamentally not revolutionary parties, and there’s only so much you can do through the institutions, especially as an EU member state.
I’m very hopeful for activism in regionalist parts of Spain, such as for example through GKS, but I honestly don’t believe that anything beyond mutual-aid structures and some mild policy may come from institution-oriented parties.
The socialists have little representation on the parliament, and right now depend on the socdems to govern.