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Category Archives: Elections
Dec 14 2015
Why Ciudadanos’ Albert Rivera is the candidate best placed to oust Mariano Rajoy as Spanish PM
1 CommentBy Jose Javier Olivas Spain will hold a general election on 20 December, with opinion polls indicating a tight contest between four parties for the largest share of the vote – the governing People’s Party (PP), who have a small … Continue reading
Posted by: December 14, 2015
Tagged with: Ciudadanos, elections, Podemos, PP, PSOE, Spain
Sep 28 2015
A bitter victory for Catalan pro-independence nationalists
6 CommentsBy Jose Javier Olivas This time the polls got it right. The nationalist pro-independence coalition Junts pel Sí (‘Together for Yes’) won the elections. But arguably this has been a bitter victory. Their 62 seats are insufficient to rule the … Continue reading
Posted by: September 28, 2015
Tagged with: Catalan Independence, Catalonia, Ciudadanos, elections, Podemos
Apr 1 2015
Ciudadanos: the ‘tortoise’ that may beat the ‘hare’ in the race for political reform in Spain
4 CommentsBy Jose Javier Olivas The emergence of Ciudadanos or Ciutadans (‘Citizens’ in Spanish and Catalan) as a credible alternative to the People’s Party (PP) and Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) is one of the most significant events in the Spanish … Continue reading
Posted by: April 1, 2015
Tagged with: Albert Rivera, Ciudadanos, Podemos, Spain, Spain elections, Spanish politics
Mar 30 2015
Subterranean Politics in Europe after the Greek Elections
2 CommentsProfessor Mary Kaldor discusses activism, Europe and the aftermath of the Greek elections with Ludovica Rogers and Hara Kouki in a conversation organised by LSE’s Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit in collaboration with Euro Crisis in the Press and with … Continue reading
Posted by: March 30, 2015
Tagged with: activism, Civil Society, EU, Euro crisis, Europe, European Union, Greece, Greek elections, Kaldor, LSE, politics, subterranean politics, SYRIZA
Feb 26 2015
Who wanted what? An aftermath of the Public debate on Greek Elections
Comments Off on Who wanted what? An aftermath of the Public debate on Greek ElectionsBy Vasileios Bougioukos and Bernard H Casey One of the possible surprises of the elections in Greece last month, was that SYRIZA didn’t poll particularly well amongst pensioners. After all, these people had suffered pretty draconian cuts, with the 2010 … Continue reading
Posted by: February 26, 2015
Tagged with: elections, Greece, SYRIZA, voters
Feb 11 2015
The Greek Government’s programme: an act of defiance or a call for compromise?
Comments Off on The Greek Government’s programme: an act of defiance or a call for compromise?By Eleftherios Antonopoulos & Konstantinos Kostagiannis International media described the Greek prime minister’s address to the parliament on Sunday as “defiant” (BBC and Reuters for example). Yet, what emerged from the speech was a mildly coherent attempt to bridge the … Continue reading
Posted by: February 11, 2015
Tagged with: ANEL, austerity, debt crisis, Euro, fiscal policy, Foreign policy, SYRIZA
Feb 9 2015
The election of Italy’s new president has strengthened Matteo Renzi’s grip over Italian politics
2 CommentsBy James L. Newell and Arianna Giovannini On 31 January, Sergio Mattarella, a former Constitutional Court judge, was elected as the new President of Italy. While the formal powers assigned to the President remain fairly limited, the appointment of Mattarella … Continue reading
Posted by: February 9, 2015
Tagged with: Italy, Mattarella, presidential elections, Renzi
Feb 5 2015
Greek elections 2015: the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?
4 CommentsBy Sotirios Zartaloudis SYRIZA’s recent electoral victory attracted global attention. This commentary will try to explain SYRIZA’s surprise move to form a coalition government with the far-right party ANEL arguing that both parties share a worldview that explains their co-operation. … Continue reading
Posted by: February 5, 2015
Tagged with: ANEL, austerity, elections, Germany, Greece, Nationalism, populism, SYRIZA