19/05/2016 00:00
The main political parties in Spain are under pressure to keep their election budgets low. In other words they have been told not to overspend on their publicity budgets. So there will be a low-key election campaign in Spain ahead of the poll next month.
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At the risk of forming a mutual admiration society,I agree with everything Sara has written and add that it's time to stop the blame game,whereby everything is the fault of the last government and whoever forms the next government,gets on with running the country for the benefit of the people.
Like Sean, I too am beginning to wonder whether we really need a government at all! But reducing publicity budgets is a must - the total cost for the last election in December was some €135 million of public funds if I remember rightly (money now down the drain) and Spain just can't afford to keep spending that amount of 'our' money. We don't need to see their faces on billboards or placards hanging from lampposts or for the parties to hold those big meetings where they bus in supporters to fill stadiums, supporters who are going to vote for them anyway. What we need are more TV debates to help people decide.Whoever wins, the last thing we need is another overall majority for any party. A 'hung parliament' is, I understand, looked on unfavourably in the UK but past experience has proven it to be the best way in Spain. Overall majorities have resulted in authoritarian governments (both PSOE and PP). The parties and their leaders have to forget their own egos and be capable of reaching pacts with one another for the good of the country.
They seem to be doing a lot better without an elected government to me.