Legislative elections: the political suicide of the Spanish right

MADRID.- What happened with the right in these

elections in Spain

it's a good sign for the political sinking.

Just three months ago, last February, three political parties gathered in Plaza Colón in that city to demand an election from a socialist government that would not give them. The challenge was christened "The Columbus Photo". There they were the Popular Party (PP), right; the liberal citizens,
and the newly reinforced Vox, from the radical right.

When the right in Congress included only two parties – the People's Party and the citizens – they had 169 seats together. That is to say, only seven are below the majority of 176. Now there are three. They went to the general elections, not only separated but unable to reach a minimum consensus, they have 22 seats less. When they were only two, they numbered 169. When they were three and they had obtained the elections claimed three months ago, they added only 147 (66). for the PP, 57 for the citizens and 24 for the Vox).

The PSOE, which did not want to give the elections, had only 85. Today, after having conceded them, it has 123. Only for that – for having seen the piece better than anybody –
Pedro Sanchez may have won something more than the elections on the political scene.

The bleeding from the right seats is explained by three reasons. First, by the Spanish electoral distribution system, which punishes fragmentation. Secondly, the division itself, which confounded the elector, was sinking into a schizophrenic internal war. Third, the right turn that mobilized the left for a successful scare campaign.

Overall, the photo is bad for the right, which
continues to be engaged in an internal war to see who is leading. If the PP collapsed, by Pablo Casado, or the ascending Citizens, by Albert Rivera. The dispute has no sign of being defined in the immediate future nor in mediation. Neither of them help the radical right of Vox, who talks about his two neighbors like the plague: "the orange weathervane" of Citizens. And "the good coward", of PP.

Fragmentation and mistrust prevail. And the lucky advantages Sanchez.

Dynamic

Each of the forces on the right is now facing their own dynamics. The PP, at the risk of disappearing, has in front of him a reconstruction which does not have a compbad yet, whereas it rains the invoices of the corruption.

Citizens, who are growing up, have to show if they are able to channel, as they claim, the leaders of the right. If we can show that he is a reliable player to exercise power, beyond the fiery rhetoric of the opposition.

Vox, without any pretension of leadership beyond the borders of his stronghold, badumes a very good role which, however, compared to his overflowing expectations, leaves a bitter air.

Going from zero to 24 seats is an extraordinary feat for any strength, if not new. But compared to the soil of 35 that was fixed and with the 60 of which speaks, leaves a bad aftertaste.

The radical right has been neutralized in Spain. The data to keep in mind is that, in the generals, they got a lower percentage than that collected last December, with its boisterous beginnings in Andalusia.

If the "three rights" of last February had proposed a better plan for Sanchez's benefit, they might not be able to find it. However, it is the lesson that is obvious.