ELECTION: SPAIN MOVES TOWARDS INCREASING POLITICAL INSTABILITY - NO CLEAR WINNER

Basically just Sargon of Akkad

The Spanish General Election results are in, but most people in the Anglosphere will have no idea what they mean because the Spanish political parties are not well known. So, in order to aid greater understanding Trad News will equate each party with well-known figures or parties from the Anglosphere. 

At the last election in 2016 the following parties gained seats in the Spanish Parliament (total 350 seats, majority 176 or more):

The People's Party (think Jeb Bush or Theresa May) 137 seats
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Elizabeth Warren or Gordon Brown) 85 seats
Unidas Podemos (Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn) 71 seats
Citizen's Party (bad fit - Farage's Brexit Party) 32 seats
Catalan Separatist Parties (SNP) 17 seats
Small regionalist and nationalist parties 8 seats

The latest results are as follows:

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Elizabeth Warren or Gordon Brown)   123 seats
The People's Party (Jeb Bush or Theresa May) 66 seats
Citizen's Party (bad fit - Farage's Brexit Party) 57 seats
Unidas Podemos (Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn) 42 seats
VOX (UKIP) 24 seats
Catalan Separatist Parties (SNP) 22 seats
Small regionalist and nationalist parties 15 seats
Green Party 1 seat

As you can see the Soft Left or Establishment Left did best, gaining 38 seats, while Spain's Bernie Bros or Corbynistas lost 29 seats.

On the Right side, the Soft Right or Establishment Right -- the Cuckservatives -- did very badly, losing more than half its seats, while the slightly harder right, the Citizen's Party and VOX (a new entry) picked up 49 seats. Although VOX is routinely described as "Fascist" and "Far Right," their policy positions suggest they are nothing more than civic nats with culturalist bias towards Islam, rather like the present Sargon-of-Akkad-friendly UKIP.

Separatist and regionalist parties in Catalonia, the Basque Country, and other parts of Spain also gained -- up from 25 seats to 37 seats.

Generally the country moved marginally to the Left, but is becoming slightly more polarised and regionalised. Creating a stable government will be tricky, raising the possibility of Spain increasingly fragmenting towards its strong regional identities.

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