Four elections - if no one remedies it in the next few days - in four years there are too many . And this suggests whether the end of this regime of two political formations that share power is good for the country. It will be due to the incapacity of the leaders, but it is a fact that the fall in the number of votes of the PSOE and the PP and the rise of Citizens and United We Can in recent years has caused an ungovernable Spain , with the political-economic consequences that this entails and the consequent weariness for the Spaniards.

Actually, the bipartisanship in Spain is somewhat relative. Since 1977, the date of the first democratic elections, they have been represented in Congress between ten -generals of 1982, 2004 and 2008- and fourteen formations -elections of 2019-. In all these elections there have been two clearly predominant parties, PSOE and PP, whose seats until the end of bipartisanship in 2015 ranged between 202 of the Socialists in 1982 and 156 of the popular in 1996. At the same time, there has always been a party to the left of the PSOE -PCE, United Left- and another around the right -CD and AP when there was UCD, CDS, UPyD, ...- but whoever won the elections and needed a partner to govern preferred to ally with nationalist formations -PNV and, then, CiU-.

In 2015, as a result of the poorly managed economic crisis, the independence drift and the corruption of the PP, two new formations appear with more parliamentary force than those just mentioned. On the left, Podemos takes over from the United Left and, through the center right, Ciudadanos does the same with UPyD.

And with this new political landscape, governance is lost. There may be many reasons, but the fact is that private interests take precedence over generals and personal desires over government criteria. What happened in these four years - although an investiture in extremis is still achieved, I believe that the situation will not change - has tired the citizens , because neither Sánchez, nor Iglesias, nor Rivera nor Casado, to mention the four leaders of Those who depend on the formation of the central government have been able to read the intention of the citizens. It would not be surprising to return to the situation prior to 2015, if not in November - in the event that we go to elections - but in the following calls. Better the bad known ... but with stable governments . Last minute effect hits included. @vicentelozano

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