Spanish Political News

[brogdale]

with 11.3pc counted 118 97 63 27 PP PSOE Podemos Ciudadanos

As the % increases I'd imagine that the PSOE-Pod seat gap will narrow...Pod scoring better in the more highly populated districts.

 

[J Ed]

Anyone dare to guess on the composition of the next government?

 

[brogdale]

15% counted and Pod are on 20% exactly.

 

[brogdale]

Anyone dare to guess on the composition of the next government?

Cunts.

 

[Favelado]

Anyone dare to guess on the composition of the next government?

It all looks a bit crisis-esque. How are they going to resolve it with the numbers the way they seem to be?

 

[brogdale]

as at 20% counted PP 61 seats down on 2011 & Pod 60 seats up.

 

[Favelado]

Errejón is speaking now, but surely his mum will want him home for dinner soon.

 

[brogdale]

It all looks a bit crisis-esque. How are they going to resolve it with the numbers the way they seem to be?

Yeah, 176 doesn't really look easy any way round, does it?

 

[brogdale]

40% in now with the PP down to 120 (-67) & Pod up to 68, (+64).

 

[J Ed]

Rivera is such a cunt

 

[Favelado]

Rivera is such a cunt

Come on. His hair's perfect and he knows the best place to get a gintonic anywhere in town. There's some great skunk back at his if you want to chill and listen to Coldplay later.

 

[J Ed]

Come on. His hair's perfect and he knows the best place to get a gintonic anywhere in town. There's some great skunk back at his if you want to chill and listen to Coldplay later.

I bet when he and his mates get stoned they laugh at poor people and torture prostitutes

 

[J Ed]

Público has a make your own coalition gov generator Simulador de pactos de gobierno there is no 'workers bomb' button to eliminate Barrio Salamanca unfortunately

 

[Favelado]

We’re still a little way of the final count, but some are already picking up a whiff of horse-trading. This from AP:

If the projections are confirmed, analysts said it could make it extremely difficult for the Popular Party to form a government because it wouldn’t get a majority of seats in parliament by allying with Ciudadanos, its most natural partner.

The country’s lower house of parliament has 350 seats and with 28 percent of the vote counted Sunday night, the Popular Party was on track to get 124 seats. The Socialists were headed toward winning 94 seats while the number for Podemos and allies was predicted at 61, with 31 for Ciudadanos.

But the centre-left Socialists could team up with Podemos and Ciudadanos in a three-way “coalition of losers” similar to an outcome that happened in Portugal last month.

“If the current poll predictions are confirmed, then it looks like a Socialist government,” said Federico Santi, a London-based analyst with the Eurasia Group political risk consulting group.

“Reaching a deal between the Socialists, Ciudadanos and Podemos is not going to be straightforward ... but if the alternative is leaving the country without a government, the pressure will be on the parties.”

The Socialists could get more seats in Parliament than Podemos with fewer votes because Spanish election law gives extra weight to rural voters.

I'd be delighted to get rid of PP. Maybe we could even have a beer in the park without getting a 600 euro fine. However, there's going to be some pretty complex negotiations to form a government involving C's and Podemos in the same coalition.

It would probably mean Sanchéz as Prime Minister, because there's no way Rivera would let Iglesias get the position.

 

[J Ed]

I'd be delighted to get rid of PP. Maybe we could even have a beer in the park without getting a 600 euro fine. However, there's going to be some pretty complex negotiations to form a government involving C's and Podemos in the same coalition.

It would probably mean Sanchéz as Prime Minister, because there's no way Rivera would let Iglesias get the position.

Ciudadanos don't need to be in the coalition though, surely you could have Podemos + PSOE + ERC

 

[J Ed]

Anyway Rivera has already said that he won't join a 'coalition of losers' by which he means anyone other than the majority party.

 

[brogdale]

Ciudadanos don't need to be in the coalition though, surely you could have Podemos + PSOE + ERC

Still not quite 176...would need a few others.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Ciudadanos don't need to be in the coalition though, surely you could have Podemos + PSOE + ERC

Looks that way.

 

[Coolfonz]

50pc counted 124 95 69 33

 

[Favelado]

Anyway Rivera has already said that he won't join a 'coalition of losers' by which he means anyone other than the majority party.

All the party leaders were lying their arses off about coalitions I think. Now they're this close to the chalice they'll go all Lib Dem.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Anybody know the parties and independents that make up the grey others?

edit damn not C & Ping

Spanish election: Conservatives win but fall short of majority, exit polls show – live updates

 

[brogdale]

C's creeping up; now @ 36 seats.
Looks like they've achieved what they were designed to do.

 

[J Ed]

Anybody know the parties and independents that make up the grey others?

edit damn not C & Ping

CCA-PNC is Coalition for Europe with one seat
EH Bildu is a pro-independence Basque party 2 seats
Unidad Popular is the Communist Party/Green coalition 2 seats

 

[Favelado]

PP can't do it can they? There's no combination of parties that will do a deal with them that gets them the majority.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Stanley. There are reasons ...

You're always claiming to be in touch with the people or to know the real Spain, but time and time again you seem to be clueless about the places you visit or the society around you. Are you really in Doncaster making all this up?

I am currently in Malaga and currently getting a very "we want a stability from the Right" sort of vibe.

I predict a landslide PP victory. Do not want to see it, but fully expect it.

 

[J Ed]

I am currently in Malaga and currently getting a very "we want a stability from the Right" sort of vibe.

I predict a landslide PP victory. Do not want to see it, but fully expect it.

lol

 

[Favelado]

I am currently in Malaga and currently getting a very "we want a stability from the Right" sort of vibe.

I predict a landslide PP victory. Do not want to see it, but fully expect it.

Great call Stanley. How do you think World War 2 will end while you're here?

 

[Libertad]

I am currently in Malaga and currently getting a very "we want a stability from the Right" sort of vibe.

I predict a landslide PP victory. Do not want to see it, but fully expect it.

Do try and keep up Stanley.

 

[Coolfonz]

78pc 123 93 68 37

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Great call Stanley. How do you think World War 2 will end while you're here?

I am very aware that WW3 is already underway.