Can Spain’s elections on Sunday deliver a functioning government?
26 abril 2019 by JRT
On Sunday, Spain will hold an election for its parliament, which will then choose a new government. This is the third time that Spaniards have voted in national elections since 2015. After the first of these elections, parliament could not agree on a government, so a repeat election was held in 2016. After that, parliament selected Mariano Rajoy of the conservative Popular Party as prime minister — but only because the main opposition Socialists abstained. With only 39 percent of seats in parliament, the Popular Party formed a single-party minority government, with support from a new center-right party, Citizens. Analysis with Bonnie Field.
Read more in The Washington Post, Monkeycage.