The two-party predominance ending
It is clear that we have had a two-party predominance system since almost the beginning of Spanish democracy. Every 4 years, when the polls take place, PP (right wing) and PSOE (left wing) fight among themselves in order to get the majority. Personally, I think it only makes undermine the population and the democracy.
In our two-party system, the parties don’t make a difference when they come to power. While they are in electoral campaign they claim to be concerned about society different problems and promise to uphold the causes if they win. Even so, at the end parties do nothing to work out them and Spain is declining every year; we are in recession, the public spending is constantly decreasing, the unemployment rate is soaring, there are cutbacks in education and the tuition fees are increasing continually. Furthermore, people lose faith on politics when they are struggling to meet ends met while politicians become more corrupt than ever.
By other hand, when the government launches a new initiative and all the politicians have to vote against or for it, any of the members of a party are able to vote in a different way of the party. If they do, they are punished with a fee and a political penalty. In other words, there is not a real democracy and population loses faith too on that. They decide to vote isn’t worth. Hardly anyone bother to vote in comparison with the first democracy ages.
Nevertheless, something has changed in last elections and there are new parties which do come across to be aware of the current society problems. I am fairly expectant to see how they can do make the difference in our country or, at least, how the two old parties are going to reach an agreement with the new ones.