Betrayal, accident and entanglement in Spain

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The Conservative People’s Party (PP) has ruled in Murcia along with the center party Ciudadanos (Cs) and with the support of Vox on the outer right wing. A similar collaboration applies in the regions of Madrid, Castilla y León and Andalucía, as well as in several cities.

Cs chose to shift the center of gravity from right to left foot and joined the Socialist Party (PSOE) on March 10 in a no-confidence motion against the president of Murcia and one against the mayor of the capital of the same name, both from the PP, after cheating with vaccinations and other filthy. Cs would then have the president of the province and the PSOE rapporteur of the capital.

Men this was immediately big politics, and nothing went as anyone might have thought. A few hours later, the president of the Madrid district, Isabel Díaz Ayuso from the PP, dismissed all his government members from the Cs without warning and called new elections on 4 May. She would come up with a possible proposal of no confidence in her in advance. Two came in, who would have stopped the new election, but they came too late, a court ruled. Ayuso referred to his hitherto collaborators in Cs as “traitors”.

Recipe for disaster

Soon there was a motion of no confidence against PP in Castilla y León as well, but it fell. In Andalucía, the cooperation between PP and Cs seems to be lasting.

Then the change of power in Murcia turned out to be a false alarm. For “thirty silver coins”, ie seats in the region’s government, including as vice president, PP “bought” three elected representatives from Cs, who withdrew their signatures from the no-confidence motion. They betrayed their party leader, Inés Arrimadas, who had made this plan to approach the Socialists and who would have given Cs a part of the country to rule for the first time.

Citizens is a party in life crisis, it goes from hurting to worse. The originally liberal center party, born in the region of Catalonia in the fight against Catalan independence and against corruption in the PP, under the previous leader, Albert Rivera, took many steps to the right to try to become bigger than the PP. It was a death line. After the election in Spain in April 2019, the Cs and the PSOE could have formed a government with a clear majority. Men Rivera sa nei. A new election followed in November, and the party went back from 57 to 10 elected representatives in the Chamber of Deputies. Rivera resigned after the disaster. Arrimadas, who had led the party in Catalonia to election victory in 2017, had to take over. But in the election there in February this year, it ended in disaster. The party went back from 36 to 6 seats and became smaller than Vox at its birthplace. 80 percent of the voters disappeared, about 14 percent of them to the Socialists and 12 to Vox, the rest did not vote.

Arrimadas trying to drag the party into midfield, while shop stewards and voters jump off. PP under Pablo Casado tries to devour both leaders and voters from Cs to gather the inner right, but there he will also have with Vox. Lefle with the outer right has not paid off for either PP or Cs. Cs wanted to surpass Vox in opposition to Catalan secession, PP spoke for a long time Vox about conservative and reactionary values. In the latest survey from the CIS institute, Vox is stepping on the heels of PP with 15 against 17.9 percent support. Cs is at 9.5 percent. When a lefler with outer right, voters like the original best.

The governing parties are well ahead: the PSOE gets 31.3 percent and Unidas Podemos (UP) 9.6 plus 3 percent with the adjacent Más País.

Madrid could be Ciudadanos’ grave in the May election. But Podemos is also fighting for his life at the party’s birthplace in 2014; it has been dangerously close to the 5 per cent threshold. Therefore, Iglesias throws himself into the match in Madrid against Ayuso from the PP and far right. Ayuso does not mind playing on a team with Vox. Throughout the pandemic, she has opposed national measures for infection control and even gone to court. Now her slogan is: “Communism or freedom!” “Spain owes me one, we got Iglesias out of La Moncloa” (that is, the government offices), she tweeted.

Ayuso and Iglesias have met to exchange words before. The environment that later founded Podemos ran the television channel La Tuerca (“Muttera”), which broadcast on the Internet. There the two then relatively unknown opposite poles met, and afterwards they went out and drank beer together. Now there will hardly be more beer.

Iglesias had apparently intended to gather all forces to the left of the PSOE in Madrid, ie Unidas Podemos and Más Madrid, and to take the lead in this. Más Madrid, on a national basis Más País, was created by former number two in Podemos, Íñigo Errejón. Their list leader, Mónica García, on the contrary said no to letting Iglesias take over, they are bigger than Podemos in Madrid. Now they pose separately.

The party leaders of all national parties are throwing themselves into the battle for Madrid, for two of them it is a battle to survive.

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