Politics In Spain
My two sons and I took a trip to Spain . It’s a great place to visit. We had a rather simple plan – land in Madrid, rent a car, drive around the country and see things. And that’s what we did. Since I write about immigration, I was on the lookout for immigration angles. […]
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A relatively new political party is doing well in Spain, a true conservative, nationalist Spanish party. It’s worth keeping an eye on. Thanks to its fractious politics and multiplicity of parties, Spain had two general elections in 2019, in April and then in November. Before the April election, Vox had no seats in the Congreso, […]
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On April 28th, 2019, Spain held an election. No party won a majority, but the incumbent PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) won a plurality. In fifth place was the right-wing traditionalist nationalist party Vox, which got 10.3 percent of the vote and broke into Spain’s lower house of parliament, seating 24 representatives. Vox is an […]
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