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Spain braces for its fourth election in four years
Published in Amwal Al Ghad on 18 - 09 - 2019

Spain is heading to its fourth election in four years after almost six months of unsuccessful political negotiations.
The Southern European economy has been at a political impasse since a general election took place in April. At the time, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez won the vote but without a majority and he has, since then, struggled to find any support from other political groups to form a government. As a result, he has asked Spanish voters to head to the polls again, hoping the next election would provide a clearer outcome.
The Spanish people have chosen to move forward with a progressive government led by Spain's Socialist Party, PSOE. Sanchez, the Socialist leader, said on Twitter. "We will ask you to say it even clearer on November 10, so that there are no more blockages and Spain enters a path of stability," he added.
Opinion polls show that the Socialist Party of Prime Minister Sanchez would win an election with 31 percent of the vote – this is up from 28.7 percent in the April election. The conservative party Partido Popular would come second with 19 percent of support, followed by the populist Podemos with 14 percent and the liberal party Ciudadanos with 13 percent.
"Elections are likely to produce broadly similar results," Federico Santi, senior analyst at Eurasia group warned in a note last week.
As a result, Pedro Sanchez is likely to find himself at the negotiating table once again to get support for a new government, albeit with more parliamentary seats than he currently has.
"In any case, government formation would remain far from straightforward after a new election. In fact, since the vote would take place on 10 November, it is unlikely that the country would have a new cabinet in place by the end of the year," Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at Teneo, said in a note Monday.
The Economy is indifferent to politics
Despite the political impasse for most of 2019, the Spanish economy seems to be holding up – even at a time when other euro zone countries are suffering from trade uncertainties, slowdown in manufacturing and the Brexit impasse.
"While new elections would serve to prolong the uncertainty, leaving Spain without a fully-capable government for the better part of 2019, this is unlikely in and of itself to undermine the country's economic outlook," Santi from Eurasia said.
He added that the outlook for the Spanish economy "remains positive".
Spain is expected to grow at a rate of 2.2 percent this year and 1.9 percent in 2020, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Source: CNBC


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