Has Spanish politics become outdated?
People who knows me, also know that I was brough up in Sweden and later immigrated to Australia, but the last 30 years living in Spain.
My first contact with the Spanish politic was I 1976, when I worked for a US company in Madrid. This was the year after the death of General Franco and people in general was scared about the future, not knowing how a democratic government could improve the life in Spain.
In the year 2025, the Spanish democratic system is on the brink of collapse. Over the past decade, many politicians have become increasingly greedy and selfish.”
This applies to politicians of all stripes, national, regional and local. It is becoming increasingly difficult for voters to trust what is said. The “modern” democratic model is a closed circle, where no one outsider has access to what is happening. Everyone within the circle helps each other, supports each other, even if they are forced to lie, for their voters.
I spent six years in local Spanish politics from 2011, where I saw greed dominate and new ideas routinely ignored by a closed inner circle.
This attitude spreads across all party lines, which means that it seems free to break laws and conventional rules, just to defend one’s leadership role.
In Australia, the country has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system under its Constitution, the world’s tenth oldest, since Federation in 1901. Australia largely operates as a two-party system in which voting is compulsory.
In Spain there are 2 main parties, PSOE (Spanish socialists) and Partido Popular (PP). It is rare for someone to have their own power, but they must turn to smaller parties to win an election, to whatever the cost will be. This means that their own party has to bow to the demands made and is therefore unable to fulfill the political promises made to the voters.
In recent years, liberal ideas have been presented by outside, politically independent individuals. This has posed a clear threat to the existing party system, and the two leading parties, PSOE and PP, are trying to prevent the Liberal trend from growing.
Now one may ask what distinguishes General Franco’s policy from today’s hidden “democracy”? The power in the inner circle is more like a dictatorship than democratically elected representatives. They go against the law, by forming their own laws in the inner circle, and in this way circumvent the law.
Unfortunately, this results in increased corruption and abuse of the Spanish population, all for their own gain! (Greed!)
That’s why I say the Spanish political model is outdated!
Even some EU members are now starting to oppose Spain’s way of governing the country.
A Liberal Party will be needed in Spain, because the PSOE and PP will understand the seriousness of their policies. Otherwise, Spain will soon resemble a “banana republic” like Venezuela.
I will be back wit other posts soon.
Thanks for reading,
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