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Spain political parties incapable of forming new govt.: Pundit

Monday, 27 June 2016 5:35 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 27 June 2016 8:23 AM ]

People cast their ballots for Spain's general election at the Casa Museo in Bollullos de la Mitacion, near Sevilla on June 26, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Spanish politicians have largely failed to improve the well-being of the people because the political parties have focused on differences instead of addressing the real issues, says Roberto De La Madrid, a journalist and political commentator from Tehran.

It is now up to the people to decide the future of their country, he said in an interview with Press TV on Sunday.

The last two elections in Spain have shown that a new era has begun in which the bipartisan government has been set aside, and the politicians and even ordinary Spaniards are not prepared for this era.

Spaniards took part in a repeat general election on June 26 in an attempt to break the country’s worst political stalemate in recent history. According to official results, the conservative People’s Party took 137 seats in the 350-member parliament, the Unidos Podemos coalition led by anti-austerity party Podemos came in second with 71 seats while the Socialists party gained 85. Liberal Ciudadanos came in fourth with 32 seats.

Another analyst described the elections in Spain as “an exercise in futility,” saying there will not be any stable government unless the political leadership starts addressing actual issues facing Spain.

The Spanish politicians are not addressing the underlying issues such as the high unemployment rate and financial crisis and there is no solution for the political, social and economic problems unless authorities address the issues, editor of the Executive Intelligence Review from Washington Dennis Small said.

If all political parties in Spain come together they still could not govern as their proposed policies do not work under the existing global financial system, he added.

He further noted that the results of the UK’s exit vote from the European Union prove “the entire European Union is finished” and the global financial situation has returned to where it was around 2008.

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