{"id":390407,"date":"2018-12-24T21:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lessons-for-the-left-from-the-spanish-elections\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T21:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:35:29","slug":"lessons-for-the-left-from-the-spanish-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lessons-for-the-left-from-the-spanish-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons for the Left From the Spanish Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>In what seems a replay of recent German and Italian elections, an openly authoritarian and racist party made major electoral gains in Spain\u2019s most populous province, Andalusia, helping to dethrone the Socialist Party that had dominated the southern region for 36 years. Vox (Voice)\u2014a party that <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/07\/vox-party-in-spain-could-bring-right-wing-populist-wave-with-help-from-steve-bannon.html\">stands for<\/a> \u201cSpain First,\u201d restrictions on women\u2019s rights, ending abortion, stopping immigration and dismantling the country\u2019s regional governments\u2014won almost 11 percent of the vote. The Party is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/andalusia-election-results-far-right-vox-spain-citizens-psoe-a8664496.html\">negotiations<\/a> to be part of a ruling rightwing coalition, while left parties are calling for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.es\/20181204\/analysis-after-the-elections-in-andalusia-expect-a-lot-more-vox-in-spanish-politics\">\u201canti-fascist front,\u201d<\/a>. It\u2019s as if the old Spanish dictator Francisco Franco had arisen from his tomb in the \u201cValley of the Fallen\u201d and was again marching on Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the results were not so much \u201cstunning\u201d\u2014the British <em>Independent\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>headline on the election\u2014as a case of chickens coming home to roost, and a sobering lesson for center-left and left forces in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Dec. 2 vote saw the center-left Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) lose 14 seats in the regional parliament and the leftist alliance, Adelante Andaluc\u00eda, drop three. The conservative Popular Party (PP) also lost seven seats, but, allied with Vox and the rightwing Ciudadanos (Citizens) Party, the right now has enough seats to take power. It was the worst showing in PSOE\u2019s history, and, while it is still the largest party in Andaluc\u00eda, it will have to go into opposition.<\/p>\n<p>On one&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/24\/lessons-for-the-left-from-the-spanish-elections\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what seems a replay of recent German and Italian elections, an openly authoritarian and racist party made major electoral gains in Spain\u2019s most populous province, Andalusia, helping to dethrone the Socialist Party that had dominated the southern region for 36 years. Vox (Voice)\u2014a party that stands for \u201cSpain First,\u201d restrictions on women\u2019s rights, ending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}