Comments on: Regional elections in Spain

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:31:40 +0000

Wow, well you are right, I really must sort it out for the next one! Amazing results…

By: greytop

greytop — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:40:40 +0000

Just in case you think your one vote would not make a difference: In a village near here there were an equal number of votes (109 I think) for two parties. The new mayor & ruling party has been picked by tossing a 20 centimo coin! For the record the PP won.
Even where I live the party with most councillors failed to get an overall majority by less than 30 votes so will be kept in opposition by a coalition of all the rest.
Come on – you’ve got 4 years to get ready for the next one!!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:02:52 +0000

I hope you are right ValenciaSon! I thought people were pretty fed up in 2004, too, but I guess these 4 years will just compound that feeling. I’ll definitely be sending in my absentee ballot!

I remember 4 or so years ago when I was living here in Madrid and went to vote with my boyfriend (now husband). I was surprised that I was allowed to accompany him through the whole process. No one even asked me what I was doing.

By: Pepino (Dave Hall)

Pepino (Dave Hall) — Tue, 29 May 2007 08:17:48 +0000

Shame. I think it was the billboard posters of her in her hardhat, looking like “one of the lads” on a building site, that did it. A bit like when Maggie was pictured driving a tank after the Falklands War and went on to win by a huge margin! jeje

The PSOE candiate Jordi Hereu won here in Barcelona (he was already the current Alcalde before Sunday). I don’t know if you’ve seen a picture of him, but in his official campaign poster (conveniently dangling in the street outside my flat) he looks the spitting image of a young Liberace!!! No joke! jeje

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 29 May 2007 07:05:21 +0000

Dave – she won – by a lot. If not all my fault, then certainly the fault of many uselss non-voters like me!

By: ValenciaSon

ValenciaSon — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:57:59 +0000

I think turnout will be much higher for the 2008 US presidential elections. For one, this nation is definitely fed up with the status quo and we are long overdue for a change!

By: Pepino (Dave Hall)

Pepino (Dave Hall) — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:53:08 +0000

I’m surprised you didn’t vote, Ben. :-0 I remember hearing you complaining quite some time ago in a podcast about Esperanza Aguirre and her attempts to cause real problems for party-political gain only over in Madrid, so I was sure that you’d have been down to the Ayuntamiento filling in forms etc the very next day, so you’d be poised ready to give her a kicking come the elections. Did she win in Madrid by the way? (If so, I hope it wasn’t by a margin of 1 vote! jeje)