What's happening to this blog? Well, at the moment I'm visiting close friends that I haven't seen in three years, and who live in an area where access to the internet is limited to say the least. As of the 18th of this month my posts will become more frequent, but until then...
Meanwhile in Spain the Spanish Socialist Worker Party (PSOE) has won Sunday's general election with 169 (5 more than in 2004) out of 350 seats. The conservative opposition (PP) meanwhile has increased its number of seats from 148 to 153. PSOE's former coalition partner's, namely the United Left (IU, formerly the Spanish Communist Party) and the Catalan nationalist Republican Left (ERC, a sister party of Plaid Cymru) have suffered major losses, leaving the centre-right Catalan nationalists CiU as the only single (minor) party with which the Socialists can hope to form a majority government. The only purely left-wing alternative would include the Galician Nationalist Block (BNG) which would give the PSOE a majority of only one seat (PSOE 169 + ERC 3 + IU 2 + BNG 2 = 176) whereas a coalition with the CiU (11 seats) would give the PSOE a majority of 6 seats (180)
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
An Explanation / Spanish Elections
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3 comments:
An interesting article and it will be good to have you back to normal soon.
"who live in an area where access to the internet is limited to say the least"
You don't mean Newport (formerly in Gwent), do you?
Actually, access to even education is limited in Newport. They only discovered fire last week, and that was when they were torching the police station.
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