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Post by cibwr on Nov 28, 2012 8:29:05 GMT
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Post by cibwr on Nov 28, 2012 23:08:08 GMT
A gain of one seat? Well I look forward to the day when the Nations of Spain are independent member states of the European Unioin. Certainly two of them seem to be heading that way.
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Post by Foggy on Apr 28, 2019 22:53:16 GMT
Forgive the boogsian threadomancy, but some of us were guilty of letting the discussion of the Valencian regional election get mixed up with the talk about the general election on the same day.
The Valencian country uses a German-style region-wide 5% hurdle for parties to gain representation. There are 3 constituencies: Alicante with 35 seats, Castellón with 24 seats and Valencia itself with 40, for a total of 99 seats.
A total of 50 seats are therefore needed for a majority. Last time the PP got the most votes and seats, but the PSOE were able to form a coalition with local left-wing group Compromís, supported from outside the executive by the regional branch of Podemos.
This time, with around half the votes counted, the left bloc is consistently on 51-52 seats to 47-48 for the now 3 right-wing parties:
PSOE 27 (+4) 25% (+5%)
PP 20 (-11) 19% (-7%)
Cs 18 (+5) 17% (+5)
Compromís 16 (-3) 16% (-2)
Vox 10 (+10) 10.24% (+9.83%)
UP-EUPV 8 (-5) 8% (-3%)
The last set of initials stands for Unides Podem — Esquerra Unida del País Valencià (United [feminine plural] We Can — United [feminine singular] Left of Valencian Country).
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Post by Georg Ebner on May 27, 2019 2:05:46 GMT
In the present situation the left performed well, of course - but not as well as pollsters like CIS had predicted:
MadridCity's farleft mayor lost her majority and can/could - like the region as a whole - be ruled by PP&Cs&Vox. The same applies to Murcia and Castilla&Leon (where PSOE became the strongest party!).
In Castilla-LaMancha and Estremadura PSOE gained overall majorites, as in its best old times, and especially Vox did badly in its GE-StrongHold.
Asturias and LaRioja (!) will have the possibility of PSOE&Podemos, in Baleares and Canarias they will/would need left local parties.
In Aragon it will depend on the rightliberal regionalists of PAR. (It's not so likely, that they'll join PP&Cs&Vox).
In Cantabria PRC can continue its coalition with PSOE (or choose PP).
In Navarre the coalition of nationalistic GBai (PNV-Navarre aso.) with the leftnationalistic EH-Bildu and the local kind of IU has lost its majority. They could take Podemos instead or PSOE (or UPN?).
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Post by Georg Ebner on May 27, 2019 4:47:14 GMT
Cities, SeatMajorities for
- PP&Cs&Vox:
Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Zaragoza, Alicante, Cordoba,...
- PSOE&Podemos&IU&leftReg.:
Barcelona (ERC minimally ahead of Podemos), Valencia, Sevilla, Palma, LasPalmas, ..., Toledo, ..., Zamora (IU-OverallMaj.!),...
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jun 21, 2019 1:17:24 GMT
Cities with over 75.000 inhabitants:
99 (97 labelled; 02 undeclared)
50 PSOE
23 PP
04 Cs
05 PNV
03 JxCat.
03 ERC
01 IU
01 UPN&PP&Cs
01 CC
01 BNG
01 Compromis
01 BComu
01 TxT
01 UP+
01 DO
Summa summarum 59 of 97 for the left. In 2015 60-61 (44 PSOE, 7 Pod., 3 IU, 6-7 other lefties) of 107 cities had a left mayor, 2011 25 (22 PSOE, 1 BNG, 1 Bildu, 1 Greens) of 104.
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Post by Foggy on Jun 21, 2019 17:56:57 GMT
Cities with over 75.000 inhabitants: 01 IU 01 BComu 01 TxT 01 UP+ IU, Barcelona en Comú and UP+ are all variants of Unidos Podemos. TxT stands for Tot per Terrassa (All for Terrassa), a localist party in Barcelona province created by former Socialist council leader Jordi Ballart. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jun 22, 2019 11:05:02 GMT
Cities with over 75.000 inhabitants: 01 IU 01 BComu 01 TxT 01 UP+ IU, Barcelona en Comú and UP+ are all variants of Unidos Podemos. TxT stands for Tot per Terrassa (All for Terrassa), a localist party in Barcelona province created by former Socialist council leader Jordi Ballart. No, they are different beasts: The IU-mayor is in a SubUrb of Madrid traditionally run by IU and they had also this time with Pod. no joint list. In Barcelona the relationship between Pod. and BComu has been difficult. The Cadiz-list ("Adelante") seems to have remained closer to Pod.. |
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Post by Foggy on Jun 22, 2019 18:27:12 GMT
IU, Barcelona en Comú and UP+ are all variants of Unidos Podemos. TxT stands for Tot per Terrassa (All for Terrassa), a localist party in Barcelona province created by former Socialist council leader Jordi Ballart. No, they are different beasts: The IU-mayor is in a SubUrb of Madrid traditionally run by IU and they had also this time with Pod. no joint list. In Barcelona the relationship between Pod. and BComu has been difficult. The Cadiz-list ("Adelante") seems to have remained closer to Pod.. Yes, the mayor of Zamora (though I wouldn't call it a suburb of Madrid!) has been in post since before Podemos existed, but the IU is now part of Unidos Podemos at the national level. Whether they run a joint list seems to depend on personality clashes in the various provinces. You are quite correct about the situation in Barcelona and Cádiz. The mayor of the latter city is the partner of Andalusian regional UP leader Teresa Rodríguez – and father of their children – so I would call that being pretty 'close' (intimate, even) with Podemos. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jun 22, 2019 19:33:19 GMT
No, they are different beasts: The IU-mayor is in a SubUrb of Madrid traditionally run by IU and they had also this time with Pod. no joint list. In Barcelona the relationship between Pod. and BComu has been difficult. The Cadiz-list ("Adelante") seems to have remained closer to Pod.. Yes, the mayor of Zamora (though I wouldn't call it a suburb of Madrid!) has been in post since before Podemos existed, but the IU is now part of Unidos Podemos at the national level. Whether they run a joint list seems to depend on personality clashes in the various provinces. You are quite correct about the situation in Barcelona and Cádiz. The mayor of the latter city is the partner of Andalusian regional UP leader Teresa Rodríguez – and father of their children – so I would call that being pretty 'close' (intimate, even) with Podemos. Zamora is far below 75.000. The Madrid-SubUrb is Rivas-..., where - as i mentioned - IU and Pod. had candidated separately. |
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Post by Foggy on Jun 23, 2019 16:08:30 GMT
Yes, the mayor of Zamora (though I wouldn't call it a suburb of Madrid!) has been in post since before Podemos existed, but the IU is now part of Unidos Podemos at the national level. Whether they run a joint list seems to depend on personality clashes in the various provinces. You are quite correct about the situation in Barcelona and Cádiz. The mayor of the latter city is the partner of Andalusian regional UP leader Teresa Rodríguez – and father of their children – so I would call that being pretty 'close' (intimate, even) with Podemos. Zamora is far below 75.000. The Madrid-SubUrb is Rivas-..., where - as i mentioned - IU and Pod. had candidated separately. Ah yes, quite correct. Places like Rivas and Terrassa might well have six-figure populations and technically be separate municipalities but they don't really have a distinct identity from their larger neighbour. Zamora isn't a very important city these days, but for historical reasons it's still a provincial capital. And yep, IU and the local Podemos 'confluencia' ( Ahora Madrid) had separate lists region-wide due to a falling out. |
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Post by Foggy on Feb 10, 2020 21:27:40 GMT
Regional elections in the Basque Country and Galicia, which were due to be held in the autumn, have been brought forward to the 5th of April.
Yet more early elections in Catalonia might well take place sometime this year too.
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Post by Georg Ebner on Feb 10, 2020 22:23:08 GMT
Regional elections in the Basque Country and Galicia, which were due to be held in the autumn, have been brought forward to the 5th of April. Yet more early elections in Catalonia might well take place sometime this year too. The BasqueCountry will be boring, but Galicia - which has in federal elections been trending leftwards - should be close: PP refused a coalition with C's and Vox could spoil lots of wasted votes. On the other side the FarLeft is terribly split, benefitting the rivival of the LeftNationalisits of BNG. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Feb 10, 2020 22:53:02 GMT
While in Vasconia a coalition of ETA/Bildu and PSOE can be ruled out (last time they would have had a 1-SeatMajority), in Catalonia ERC will likely become the new Archimedical Point: The largest party, which can choose between a nationalistic or a left coalition. Should calm down secessionism.
Despite partly strong results for PNV and CDC/Junts in the recent past both regions have been moving to the left in federal elections.
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Post by Foggy on Mar 16, 2020 21:15:44 GMT
Regional elections in the Basque Country and Galicia, which were due to be held in the autumn, have been brought forward to the 5th of April. Yet more early elections in Catalonia might well take place sometime this year too. The Basque and Galician elections have unsurprisingly been put on hold, given the ongoing pandemic. Because their legislatures have been dissolved, elections are meant to take place by the end of May, but if need be both regions might try to find a legal remedy that delays the polls even further. All the main parties had already suspended campaigning by the end of last week, and all the leaders agreed with today's decision. In Catalonia, the Parliament was never dissolved in the first place, but any plans for a new poll have been shelved for the time being too. Elections don't technically have to happen there until early 2022. |
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Post by Foggy on May 18, 2020 14:21:15 GMT
The Basque and Galician elections are now planned to take place on the 12th of July.
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Post by ilerda on May 18, 2020 15:49:22 GMT
It will be interesting to see if they re-open the nomination process for parties and coalitions, or follow the procedure introduced a couple of years ago for re-runs of national elections where parties and coalitions remain validly nominated.
The change in leadership in Ciudadanos and the diverging approaches of C's and the PP to the response to Coronavirus could put their PP+Cs alliance at risk in the Basque Country
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Post by Georg Ebner on May 19, 2020 19:18:46 GMT
It will be interesting to see if they re-open the nomination process for parties and coalitions, or follow the procedure introduced a couple of years ago for re-runs of national elections where parties and coalitions remain validly nominated. The change in leadership in Ciudadanos and the diverging approaches of C's and the PP to the response to Coronavirus could put their PP+Cs alliance at risk in the Basque Country Be welcome here! |
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Post by greenhert on May 19, 2020 19:37:44 GMT
It will be interesting to see if they re-open the nomination process for parties and coalitions, or follow the procedure introduced a couple of years ago for re-runs of national elections where parties and coalitions remain validly nominated. The change in leadership in Ciudadanos and the diverging approaches of C's and the PP to the response to Coronavirus could put their PP+Cs alliance at risk in the Basque Country Given the timing of the rescheduling of said elections it is likely that the parties and coalitions who were validly nominated for the delayed elections will remain validly nominated, which will save a lot of time given that Spain's lockdown easing process is a gradual one just like that of the UK. |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jul 12, 2020 16:39:08 GMT
TurnOut in Galicia was high in the morning, but has fallen towards normality during the day - probably a good sign for PP.
In Euskara it is sharply down, but there are lots of PostalVotes.
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