13h 17h 2004 24.56% 33.92% 2009 24.11% 33.79%
Party Votes (%) Seats(-4) PP 5.8M(-0.6M) 42%(+0.8%) 23(-1) [EPP] PSOE 5.3M(-1.4M) 39%(-4.8%) 21(-4) [PES] CEU 0.7M(-0.1M) 5%(-0.3%) 2(--) [EPP/ALDE] IU 0.5M(-1.2M) 4%(-0.4%) 2(--) [GUE/NGL] UPyD 0.4M(new) 3%(new) 1(+1) [NI] EdP 0.4M(-0.0M) 3%(+0.2%) 1(--) [EFA-Greens]
While I am not the happiest person with the current Spanish government, I am not sure what the PP has done to deserve the victory ... are they really going to win the next elections?
This outcome, 2-seat win over the PSOE and 4 percentage points, was described by El Pais today as a sign that the Government should worry.
It's just a 3.6% win, so it's borderline. The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler
I'm going to bed now... The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler
This can be also indicatiosn that recent internal political questions in Spain ahd an influence in the electiosn, int his case the lack of an agreement for the finantial arrangement between the Spanish State and Catalonia.
At least, our TV are showing report from all capitals... if only we would ahve selected a head of the comission .. I would bet that voting total would raise significatively only if some "Head" would be selected by the european parliament.
If not..everything is local.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
They had a high turnout in Madrid and valencia, again for purely local reasons regardign the support of the base towards the indicted corrupted members of the right-wing party.
