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Tactical Retreat: Madrid Makes Concessions to Catalonia and the Basque Country

... repeated extension of the state of emergency in the country in spring 2020, the adoption of the state budget for 2021 as well as passing the bill on the distribution of money from the EU recovery fund into law. In this regard, both Catalonia and the Basque Country are now presented with more opportunities to promote their interests in broadening autonomous powers in exchange for their support of the governmental projects. At times of the bipartisan system, when the party to win general elections could independently form a majority government, regional forces had weaker bargaining positions. However, the value of their votes in the Congress of Deputies today has increased drastically. Amid such conditions, P. Sanchez has no other way ...

20.01.2022

Spain: Regional Elections in the Midst of a Political Dead End

... country, which is in a very difficult situation. With no alternative in sight, they believe that the ruling party should be the one that received the greatest number of votes, no matter what their relationship with that party may be. The regional elections in Galicia and the Basque Country confirmed a trend that has manifested itself at every parliamentary election since 2011, that is, a steady decline in votes for the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. Meanwhile, the regional elections in Galicia and the Basque Country ...

05.10.2016

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