Monday, July 24, 2023

Spanish Elections: The Sorta Right Wins a Sorta Victory

 You can resume breathing. The Spanish election results are in. 

The Partido Popular, the major "conservative" party, has won the most seats of any other party but fallen short of a majority in the 350 seat House of Parliament. The PP did "defeat" the Socialists of the PSOE, winning more seats (136), and becoming the largest contingent in the Parliament, but will have a tough time gluing together a coalition to reach 176 seats. 

The PSOE (122 seats) also will have rough time putting together a ruling coalition, and the regional independence parties already have signaled that they will not support the PSOE without a price. 

The PP has called on the PSOE not to block the formation of a PP government despite the lack of a clear majority, noting that no party has ruled after losing an election. We'll see about that, but the "experts," the same ones who called the election generally wrong, predict a caretaker that will call for new elections before the end of the year. 

Will the results be different?

We had a grand old time in a mountain top restaurant near the French border. The restaurant is owned by a Colombian and his British partner from the Falklands--never met a person from the Falklands before, and we had an interesting conversation about Colombia, the Falklands, and that the EU has now officially adopted the name Malvinas for the Falklands.

Anyhow, it's now raining like hell, and I hope to have a peaceful day with minimal activity. 

17 comments:

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  2. Wow.. did not know the EU went full-on malvinas.... was that in revenge for brexit?

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  3. The forecasts of right wing victories seem to be coming up short. At least Netanyahu got his judicial reform passed.

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  4. Article this morning on the Spanish election at American Thinker, possibly if vote fraud.

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  5. Saw this post from PowerLine and immediately fought of you. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/a-postscript-to-the-spanish-election.php

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  6. "The Partido Popular, the major "conservative" party, has won the most seats of any other party >but< fallen short of a majority..."

    C'est La Vie say the old folks~~~
    or so I've heard, btw has the Vox
    checked those machines yet,
    or will Spain rely upon the
    now common Globalista
    Hocus~Pocus~~~?
    On Watch~~~
    P.S.
    Or has our man Harnwell's
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    cuddling-up w/ Ukraine
    is what has cost the
    Vox party to lose 2 to
    3% of the Vote this
    time around?
    Start
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    below: @4:10
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  7. The Brits sorted that Malvinas business out in 1982. Perhaps someone should tell the EU the result was not in favour of the Argies. But then the Brits have always been a constant irritant to mainland Europe that they have never managed to control.

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    1. Figure Argentina can just buy the Falklands, no? Their government prints infinity-money anyways, what could go wrong?
      I don't know how hyper-inflative states like Turkey, Argentina and Lebanon continue to survive.

      On the other hand, maybe Argentina can play this off, have Xi purchase the Falklands outright (from the trillion US dollars that Xi has stashed under beijing), in exchange for Argentina supporting Xi (err, I mean 'Putin' right?) in the Ukraine war.

      - reader #1482

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  9. Since we are in a Spanish mood
    Night Music from the Streets of Madrid
    Boccherinni

    https://youtu.be/F-TeS7O6aiQ

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    1. Lovely Selection to
      start my day as well~~~
      tks for sharing, Skip~~~
      OW~~~
      Hop...Skip...n' Jumping
      into a VFND=Salute~~~

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    2. See What I mean~~~
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFWODce9CHA
      Clapping too~~~
      OW~~~

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    But we don't do that because that will increase gas prices.... which means.. we're just not serious about preventing Iran from getting nukes. Let's just stop pretending that we are.

    - reader #1482

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    1. Good to hear your thoughts
      on this Nuke proliferation
      issue, -reader #1482...
      do you have a link
      you could share?
      Thanks in adv~~~
      On Watch~~~

      "Let's Roll"

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