Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Spain’s Socialists Win Election with Green New Deal Platform

Vote share up in mining regions after deal to transition away from coal, manifesto calls for ‘consideration of planetary limits as conditions for economic progress’
From right to left, Spain's finance minister Maria Jesus Montero, industry, commerce and tourism minister Reyes Maroto, justice minister Dolores Delgado García and minister for the ecological transition Teresa Ribera, celebrating Sunday's election win (Photo Credit: Teresa Ribera/Twitter) Click to Enlarge.
The PSOE, which campaigned on a sweeping platform of ecological transition, clinched 29% of the vote and 123 seats in the 350-seat congress.

 It will need to form a coalition with populist left-wing party Unidos Podemos (UP), which has also called for a decarbonization of the economy.  Even then, it will also require the help of regional parties, or the center-right Ciudadanos, in order to govern.

 Commenting on the results, political analyst Pepe Fernández-Albertos described PSOE’s gain of 6.1% as “something quite exceptional for a party in government”.  At 75.8%, attendance was also 9% higher than the previous election in 2016.

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