Spain: Madrid and Barcelona show -- the greater the unity on the left, the bigger the win

http://links.org.au/node/4443
Date Written:  2017-05-27
Publisher:  Links
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX21559

Once the results of Spain’s May 24, 2015, local and regional elections became known the main lesson for the anti-austerity and anti-capitalist left was simply and starkly obvious: the more united and more involving of ordinary people its election campaigns were, the greater its gains and the greater the losses for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) -- its main rival for the popular and working-class vote -- and for the ruling conservative People's Party (PP).

Subject Headings

• Electoral Politics
• Left Parties
• Left-Wing Politics
• Social Democracy
• Spain