Explaining the current paralysis of the spanish government.
Hi! How're u?
Maybe you have listened something about the current situation of the spanish politics. To brief: We have been trying to make a new government during the last 8 months unsuccessfully. We've voted twice and it's very possible that we have to come back to the polls again by the end of the year. But, why is happening this?
To explain this strange moment of our democracy, we have to take a look to the last years. Until 2008 Spain had one of the most growing economies of the european zone, but in 2008 arrived the financial issues. The percentage of unemployed was duplicated in only two years and a lot of bussiness closed. The point that in parallel to all these dramatic events it was discovered that our politicians had been stealing. Not all of them, but an important part of the most important were tainted by corruption. Not mattere the party. The conservative one, the progressive one, even our monarchy had problems with the corruption. Also the local governments, specially Madrid, Valencia and Cataluña. It had been impossible to prove, but there're also suspicions about our president.
Drop by drop, the revelations appeared in the media were created a state of indignation. In one hand, hundreds of thousands persons losing their jobs. In the other one, news about public works adjuticated through bribes. These kind of news constitute a perfect breedring ground for the distrust on the system. Fortunely, it appeared a new political party what try to take the voice of the outcasts to the institutions (Podemos). At the same time, it appeared a second party not so radical, but with an important commitment to fight against the corruption.
In December of 2015, we had the first elections since the beginning of the political scandal and so the born of these two parties. The result of the election was very complicated. A multipartidism parlament in a very polirazised country. There were some possible combinations to make a government, but the parties decided to come back to the polls trying to improve their results. The second elections, last juny, showed similiar results. At this point, the parties keep negociating, but we have some regional elections in a week and they've prefered to stop it until the elections were done.
If they don't get an agreement in a few weeks, we're going to have to repeat elections again. ¡Third time in a year!
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