The battle for Spain

[Sporting]

Castilla y León should really be divided into two, given how diverse it is. The same arguments have been put forward for similarly sprawling Andalucía, where Almería, for example, has more in common with Murcia than Cádiz.

[Discordant Resonance]

Castilla y León should really be divided into two, given how diverse it is. The same arguments have been put forward for similarly sprawling Andalucía, where Almería, for example, has more in common with Murcia than Cádiz.

Indeed, that's pretty much why the local parties flourished yesterday.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Equo are listed in the 2019 allocation of seats for the hemicycle graphic

I'll take you word for that - I can't read pictures, so rely on the words and numbers being accurate, which they aren't in that graphic. So the lesson I've learned is not to bother trying to decipher them.

[ursus arctos]

They are there in the collection of words and numbers referring to 2019 to the right of the hemicycle.

They aren't there in the 2019 columns of the table.

Which is the essential problem.

[DCI Harry Batt]

So yeah, I'm sticking with my lesson.

(It didn't even occur to me to start trying to decipher that bin fire tbh.)

[Discordant Resonance]

¡ Haste la vitoria siempre ! (The 1936 GE result)

[Gangster Octopus]

Good that the right respected the result then...

[Discordant Resonance]

The long-standing civil war in PP ranks between the leader, Pablo Casado, and the President of the Madrid region, Isabel Ayuso, has exploded into the open after revelations today that the latter's administration has awarded local government contracts worth €1.5m to a company owned by her brother. Cue a Vox surge in the next opinion poll.

[Discordant Resonance]

And now Vox overtakes PP in the polls:

[Sporting]

God, it's complicated. Myself, I don't think Vox will maintain these figures. But maybe that's wishful thinking.

Ayuso is seen as charismatic and Casado as dull. Both opinions are true. Both are arseholes.

[Sporting]

Casado resigns.

[Discordant Resonance]

Will Sanchez decide to go for a snap election, or see out the end of his mandate?

[DCI Harry Batt]

Depends if he thinks he'd win.

[Sporting]

Be careful of the PP bounce. And Vox.

[Discordant Resonance]

It's a tricky calculation, in that the weaker PP gets, the more the potential of an alternative government recedes (safe to say none of the local parties would support Vox), but unless the Socialists and Podemos won circa 150 seats between them, it wouldn't be worth the gamble.

[Discordant Resonance]

The leading contender at present appears to be Feijoo, the current President (PM) of Galicia - he's generally more centrist than the national party, and has maintained a balance in relation to both regional autonomy and the language question.

[Sporting]

Casado will hold on until April but won't be a candidate. Feijóo is more centrist than Ayuso, who has indicated that she would consider Vox as a partner.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/europeelects/status/1497924245321625601?s=21

[Discordant Resonance]

The "centrist" Feijoo has accepted the formation of a PP-Vox government in Castilla y León - commitments include dilution of national legislation on gender-based violence, "ordered immigration" (only the national government can actually control this) and scrapping historical memory laws about the Francoist legacy.

[ursus arctos]

Disturbing thread (click through to read it all)

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1516017380815691776?s=21&t=HyQ-luT-22Gws4X3rbmqMg

[ursus arctos]

The personal phones of the Prime Minister and Defence Minister are now thought to have been infected

[ursus arctos]

This is a heartbreaking piece

https://twitter.com/swajones/status/1525880287581949954?s=21&t=ow_arzfrPtIkMoPrrcJeyg

[Discordant Resonance]

https://twitter.com/Civil_War_Spain/status/1573389904729481217

[Sporting]

This was planned over a year ago:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57902023

[Sporting]

More success for the castellers of Villafranca::