The Dilemma of European Social Democracy: Spanish Edition
... was unable to change the situation: at the 2015 parliamentary elections and the early elections in 2016, PSOE continued to lose ground, with its worst result in the entire democratic period. The weakened position of PSOE was related to the crisis in Spain’s bipartisan system, in which center-left PSOE and the center-right People’s Party (PP) had long taken turns in power, overshadowing all other parties. The 2015 elections radically changed the situation, with the radical left party “Podemos” (“We can”) and center-right “Ciudadanos” (“Citizens”) notably pressuring PSOE and PP. The parties were forced to form a coalition government, but were too caught up in party interests to come to agreements. The attempt to create ...