Good News -Spanish socialists' win is latest sign of Europe's centre-left upturn

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/29/spanish-socialists-win-is-latest-sign-of-europes-centre-left-upturn
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A decisive socialist win in Spain’s election on Sunday may be seen in Europe as evidence of a gathering centre-left recovery – but it also underlines the dangers to moderate conservatives of courting the far right.

Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party (PSOE) won 123 seats and 29% of the vote in Sunday’s election, well up on the 85 seats and 23% they got in 2016. The conservative People’s party (PP) lost half its vote share and half its MPs, finishing second with 66 seats.

In an increasingly fragmented landscape – Spain’s two mainstream parties could once expect 80% of the vote between them – the centre-right Ciudadanos (Citizens) won 57 seats, the anti-austerity Unidas Podemos (United We Can) and its allies 42, and the far-right Vox 24.

The outcome vindicated Sánchez’s modest but determined campaign, demonstrating that centre-left parties can still win European elections by pursuing left-of-centre, socially liberal policies and attacking the far right.

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Pay attention Dems!

[panader0]

1. I'm happy for Spain,

But I wish the Brits would learn how to spell center.
just kiddin'

[malaise]

2. That's the correct spelling

[DFW]

3. Yeah, good luck with that

As if the Brits are going to take pointers in grammar from a country where half the people think that plurals in English are formed with an apostrophe

[Wounded Bear]

5. That would certainly COLOR my opinion of them...

[Mc Mike]

4. Go, left. rec, nt

[Wounded Bear]

6. A little hope, perhaps...

that there is some pushback on the radical rightism sweeping the globe.