On surrogacy (I've decided to write this so that I can practice my English vocabulary related to politics). Ciudadanos, a Spanish political party, wants to legalize surrogacy in Spain, as long as it is """altruistic""" and there's no economic exchange between the surrogate and the parents, or, as I like to call them, the buyers. Before understanding why they want to legalize it, we must understand their ideology: Ciudadanos is a right-wing neoliberal party that wants to prove that they are not that, and they've realized that surrogacy is key for this. Why? Because then they can talk about LGBT rights. The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), the biggest left-wing party in Spain, opposes surrogacy, so Ciudadanos has seen a way to attack them and get some of their voters. How? Well, el PSOE legalized gay marriage back in 2005, and now that they oppose surrogacy, Ciudadanos can sell the idea that they are the party that supports LGBT rights (which they don't, to be honest), in a strategy to appeal some voters that do not trust them when it comes to this issue. The problem here is that Ciudadanos is pretty ignorant, or maybe they don't want to tell the truth, because the biggest group of buyers when it comes to surrogacy is straight couples, and not gay men. The People's Party (PP), Spain's conservative party, is against it, and it's because they link "surrogacy" to "LGBT rights". The alliance here is quite interesting: left-wing parties and conservative parties voting against the same thing together, but for different reasons: while PSOE, Podemos, United Left or other parties in the left side of the political spectrum vote against it because of feminism, el PP votes against surrogacy because they believe this is all about LGBT rights. But it's not: it has to do with feminism, capitalism, poverty, and ethics. For Ciudadanos, it's their way to prove that they're "modern" and "progressive", something most voters don't believe. Luckily, the alliance between PP, PSOE, United Left, Podemos and other left-wing parties will not let surrogacy become legal in the Spanish state. Interestingly enough, many European social-democratic parties have not followed PSOE's position, and same for some green parties, which fall into the "everyone is free to do what they want" speech without doing a deep analysis on surrogacy.