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How the eviction of Maricarmen in Madrid triggered housing protests and snap elections In Madrid the political landscape has been turned on its head. Public outrage over the attempted eviction of a 87-year-old woman in Madrid from the apartment she had lived in since 1953 brought tens of thousands of people across Spain to... Read More "Spain’s Housing Crisis Explodes"
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The Beginning of the End The Spanish government, a coalition of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and sections of the alternative left united under the Sumar Party, is a rare bird in Europe. In the light of the alarming rise of far-right and conservative forces across the West, it has come to stand as an international... Read More "The most left-wing government in history?"
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How movements in the streets paved the way for the institutions In 2005, Zapatero regularized the legal status of half a million people. Since then, no government has promoted any similar initiative, until the citizen movement Regularización Ya (Regularization Now) came on the scene. “Regularization was... Read More "The Extraordinary Regularization of Migrants in Spain"
Ana Mendes
Early parliamentary elections were held in Portugal on Sunday, called after a motion of no confidence in Montenegro's right-wing government (PSD-CDS) had been filed and rejected. The underlying reason for this motion of no confidence had to do with the prime minister’s legal and ethical fitness for office.... Read More "Once Upon a Time There was a Country…"
Ana Mendes
For the third time in four years, general elections have been called in Portugal. This time the elections follow a confidence motion tabled by Montenegro's right-wing government (PSD-CDS), which they lost. This is not merely further evidence of the instability and institutional crisis into which the right and the liberal centre are... Read More "Snap elections in Portugal"
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The EU elections in Spain saw a narrow victory for the centrist People's Party, which beat the Socialist Party by two seats. The clear victory goes to the political tradition of the bipartitism, with the two major parties winning a total of 64.37% of the vote. The far-right party VOX received 9.62%, comparable to its Portuguese counterpart CHEGA, which... Read More "Yolanda Díaz steps down from leadership of Sumar and Izquierda Unida fails to enter the European Parliament"
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The local and regional (autonomous community) elections of May 2023 marked a shift to the right across most of the Spanish state. Barcelona was no exception: the intense mobilization of the richest neighbourhoods and the electoral stagnation of Barcelona en Comú, the party with which Ada Colau had governed the city... Read More "Eight years of political change in Barcelona"
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While the votes are still being counted (four MPs representing the Portuguese communities abroad are still to be elected), and after a night of volatile emotions, the main right-wing coalition, the Democratic Alliance (AD, formed by the main right-wing party, the PSD, and a smaller partner, the CDS),... Read More "Portugal: high instability and a shift to the right"