Pretty sad result.

Pablo Iglesias originally did not want to unite with the Hard Left, to attract more moderate voters. I think he was right.

Most likely the old communists who i December supported "People's Unity" (around "United Left", a front for the Communist party) didn't turn out to vote in June.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman