The Devil Rises
So, the elections are over and done with. And PSOE's Pedro Sánchez didn't get what he wanted when he forced them. I'm sure he was thinking that, since he had risen in April, and since he had been forceful about not bending to leftist Podemos to form a coalition government during the summer, he was going to get more seats in the Cortes. The best-laid plans tend to backfire.
He got three seats less. Podemos got seven seats less. Centrist-leaning-to-the-far-right-or-left-according-to-expediency Ciudadanos lost over forty seats. The conservative PP went up, but the winner of the night was undoubtedly far-right-Franco-loving Vox.
They garnered fifty-two seats, up from twenty-four in the last election. They have become the third force in the Cortes, behind PSOE and PP. They now get a seat on different committees, and, more importantly, will be able to contest laws in the courts.
Which is most assuredly what they will do. They will contest the Law of Historic Memory, and try to stop changing street names, removing Francoist monuments, and opening mass graves. They will contest the abortion law, which currently allows abortions for whatever reason until twelve weeks. They will contest the gender violence law, and try to leave battered or threatened women, and their children, without any help. They will contest any law passed to give any more power to the regions, any law that will raise minimum wage, and, most likely, any increase to pensions. They will try, through the back door, to impose their far-right, ultra-Catholic, nationalist views on everyone.
If, finally, we do get a government, Vox will do everything, with help from their lackeys, the PP, to block any legislation they see as wrong, which will probably be all of it. They will attempt to block any new budget without their amendments added. They first time there were elections after the no-confidence vote against Mariano Rajoy, was because the different political parties would not come to an agreement on the budget. It will happen again.
This time, people will be tired, so tired, of going to the urns every few months. Vox will attempt to force new elections, and they will rise. If new elections are called without any legislation being passed, Vox will gain seats, and, joining with the PP, will come into power. More than anything, because, except for those who will vote to punish the parties who can't get their act together, people who want the country to go forward will abstain from voting. Vox will rise because activist voters will see their votes as not helping, and reactionary voters will want to punish those in power.
Now, more than ever, every political party that shares any ideal of a better world for the common people should get together and act as one. Other countries can do it, for the common good. We must do it, unless we want to go back in time.
He got three seats less. Podemos got seven seats less. Centrist-leaning-to-the-far-right-or-left-according-to-expediency Ciudadanos lost over forty seats. The conservative PP went up, but the winner of the night was undoubtedly far-right-Franco-loving Vox.
They garnered fifty-two seats, up from twenty-four in the last election. They have become the third force in the Cortes, behind PSOE and PP. They now get a seat on different committees, and, more importantly, will be able to contest laws in the courts.
Which is most assuredly what they will do. They will contest the Law of Historic Memory, and try to stop changing street names, removing Francoist monuments, and opening mass graves. They will contest the abortion law, which currently allows abortions for whatever reason until twelve weeks. They will contest the gender violence law, and try to leave battered or threatened women, and their children, without any help. They will contest any law passed to give any more power to the regions, any law that will raise minimum wage, and, most likely, any increase to pensions. They will try, through the back door, to impose their far-right, ultra-Catholic, nationalist views on everyone.
If, finally, we do get a government, Vox will do everything, with help from their lackeys, the PP, to block any legislation they see as wrong, which will probably be all of it. They will attempt to block any new budget without their amendments added. They first time there were elections after the no-confidence vote against Mariano Rajoy, was because the different political parties would not come to an agreement on the budget. It will happen again.
This time, people will be tired, so tired, of going to the urns every few months. Vox will attempt to force new elections, and they will rise. If new elections are called without any legislation being passed, Vox will gain seats, and, joining with the PP, will come into power. More than anything, because, except for those who will vote to punish the parties who can't get their act together, people who want the country to go forward will abstain from voting. Vox will rise because activist voters will see their votes as not helping, and reactionary voters will want to punish those in power.
Now, more than ever, every political party that shares any ideal of a better world for the common people should get together and act as one. Other countries can do it, for the common good. We must do it, unless we want to go back in time.
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