Today's legislative election

[DCI Harry Batt]

Coalició Compromís is a Valencianist electoral coalition in the Valencian Community, Spain. The parties involved include Més-Compromís, the left-wing Valencian People's Initiative, and a group of environmentalist (Greens Equo of the Valencian Country) and independent parties. Together they defend Valencianist, progressive and ecological politics.

[Sporting]

They're not perfect but the best as far as I'm concerned.

[Discordant Resonance]

Coalició Compromís is a Valencianist electoral coalition in the Valencian Community, Spain. The parties involved include Més-Compromís, the left-wing Valencian People's Initiative, and a group of environmentalist (Greens Equo of the Valencian Country) and independent parties. Together they defend Valencianist, progressive and ecological politics.

The major difference with Podemos (who are also represented locally) is a greater focus on regional autonomy and linguistic issues, but both parties and the Socialists have been in coalition together for a number of years.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Yeah I can imagine their getting my vote, depending on what else is going on.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/swajones/status/1662952360233058305?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow]

[Nefertiti2]

Ada Colau loses in Barcelona. the right on the rise across Spain

[DCI Harry Batt]

Yeah doesn't look great.

[Discordant Resonance]

Looks like the next metaphorical battleground there will be in the Basque Country, after both the PP and Vox stepped up the rhetoric against EH Bildu, whom they have dubbed as etarras (many of its founders were previously in Batasuna). Perhaps unsurprisingly, the slurs bolstered, rather than hindered the abertzale party, who made notable advances against the PNV, not just in Euskadi, but also in Navarre.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Ok, so the Spanish PM's reaction to a bad day at the polls is to call an election...

[Sporting]

It would have had to be before the end of the year.

[Nefertiti2]

Poland plans to exclude the left for the next ten years

https://twitter.com/BDStanley/status/1663106588159229952?s=20

[Discordant Resonance]

Not just the left, but Civic Platform, who are pretty much centrist liberals.

[Nefertiti2]

Well of course that makes it far worse

[DCI Harry Batt]

It would have had to be before the end of the year.

Is it four years, your elections?

[Nefertiti2]

A good a place as any for this observation

https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1663230481272389646?s=20

[ursus arctos]

Absolutely the case

[Discordant Resonance]

Today, Bissau-Guineans have gone to the polls a year early, as President Embaló dissolved the legislature due to political gridlock.

[Sporting]

Slightly more positive news:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-snap-election

[Sporting]

More:

"A poll of polls by El Pais found that if Sumar and Podemos run on separate tickets they would win 26 seats and 3 seats respectively while a unified platform would get them 41 seats in the 350-seat parliament. A party or grouping needs 176 to form a government."

https://www.spainenglish.com/2023/06...lection-sumar/

[Nocturnal Submission]

I'd completely missed the news that a snap election had been called.

Given the current state of the polls it's certainly a bold move by Sanchez.

[Lang Spoon]

Well it was either die now or bleed out now and die in November.

[Discordant Resonance]

Today sees Montenegrins cast their ballots, as a new pro-European coalition is expected to overcome challenges from Milo Djukanovic's kleptocractic pseudo-Socialists and a pro-Serb, Russophile alliance.

[Discordant Resonance]

It appears there will be a broadly pro-EU government, including various Green and minority parties.

[ursus arctos]

AfD looking very much like they will take control of their first district council

https://twitter.com/wahlen_de/status/1673004188949958657?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[Discordant Resonance]

Thuringia does have history in that regard, at least it wasn't Lippe.