Martyn Richard Jones
Glasgow, 1st May 2016
If we exclude the financial sector, industry and the unions, there are four major political groups in Spanish politics with representation in the national parliament in Madrid. At the top of the list is the Partido Popular (Popular Party), in second place comes the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (the Spanish Socialist Workers Party), in third place Podemos (literally ‘We can’) and in fourth place, we have Ciudadanos (simply translated as ‘Citizens’)
In December of 2015, Spain held general elections, the twelfth democratic general elections celebrated in Spain since the end of the brutal, authoritarian and erstwhile Nazi-sympathising dictatorship of Franco. Continue reading