Post by neilm on Oct 22, 2015 0:55:12 GMT
Gibraltar goes to the polls on 26th November.
It is a possibility that the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party will win outright* but even if they don't, I expect the coalition with the Liberals to continue as at the moment there isn't really a way back for Daniel Feetham and the Gibraltar Social Democrats. Feetham isn't really the right man to be Chief Minister.
There are 17 seats in the Gibraltar Parliament, elected at large. Electors have ten votes, so parties put up 10 candidates hoping to get a block vote: this doesn't really happen because of personalities, so a party may win ten seats but some opposition MPs may have higher individual votes. There has been one by-election since 2011, won convincingly by the GSLP. Currently, the GSLP have seven seats, the GSD 7 and the Liberals 3 (the GSLP/Liberals ran together last time). At the last election and in 2007, a GSD splinter called the Progressive Democrats ran but they have now dissolved- Nick Cruz did badly in the by election and they called it a day soon after. I don't know if Charles Gomez is running again.
UKIP have stated that they will run candidates- there is actually latent UKIP support here despite the Euro result because there is a market for some flag waving, stand up to the Spanish rhetoric but frankly Fabian Picardo is doing pretty well at that anyway: exact words to me a few weeks ago on the casino balcony were 'he's too much of a firebrand.'
The power station is going to be a big issue and the GSLP will be clobbering the GSD over it, as well as highlighting their own record on public housing, Commonwealth Park and attempting to straighten out the public finances.
I can't vote in Gibraltar because I didn't reside there for very long and moved my residence back to Spain but I take a close interest.
Apparently, the Chief Minister ran down the hill from Number Six to the Convent in the rain to formally ask for a dissolution, with a flunkey holding an umbrella over him. If true, this was not a clever move: it is steep and slippery (for those of you have been, it is the road immediately adjacent to the left of the building with cannons in front at the top end of Main Street, where Solomon Levy has his estate agency). At least he didn't use his government Tesla to travel the few hundred feet.
*= by getting 9 seats. I can't remember if 10 is required to form a government.
It is a possibility that the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party will win outright* but even if they don't, I expect the coalition with the Liberals to continue as at the moment there isn't really a way back for Daniel Feetham and the Gibraltar Social Democrats. Feetham isn't really the right man to be Chief Minister.
There are 17 seats in the Gibraltar Parliament, elected at large. Electors have ten votes, so parties put up 10 candidates hoping to get a block vote: this doesn't really happen because of personalities, so a party may win ten seats but some opposition MPs may have higher individual votes. There has been one by-election since 2011, won convincingly by the GSLP. Currently, the GSLP have seven seats, the GSD 7 and the Liberals 3 (the GSLP/Liberals ran together last time). At the last election and in 2007, a GSD splinter called the Progressive Democrats ran but they have now dissolved- Nick Cruz did badly in the by election and they called it a day soon after. I don't know if Charles Gomez is running again.
UKIP have stated that they will run candidates- there is actually latent UKIP support here despite the Euro result because there is a market for some flag waving, stand up to the Spanish rhetoric but frankly Fabian Picardo is doing pretty well at that anyway: exact words to me a few weeks ago on the casino balcony were 'he's too much of a firebrand.'
The power station is going to be a big issue and the GSLP will be clobbering the GSD over it, as well as highlighting their own record on public housing, Commonwealth Park and attempting to straighten out the public finances.
I can't vote in Gibraltar because I didn't reside there for very long and moved my residence back to Spain but I take a close interest.
Apparently, the Chief Minister ran down the hill from Number Six to the Convent in the rain to formally ask for a dissolution, with a flunkey holding an umbrella over him. If true, this was not a clever move: it is steep and slippery (for those of you have been, it is the road immediately adjacent to the left of the building with cannons in front at the top end of Main Street, where Solomon Levy has his estate agency). At least he didn't use his government Tesla to travel the few hundred feet.
*= by getting 9 seats. I can't remember if 10 is required to form a government.
