Tuesday 17 May 2011

The very beginning

We are going back to the 70s, General Franco had been recently deceased and Spanish people didn't know what would come after him. Maybe a new dictator? Maybe it would be the so beloved democracy? After some political movement the first elections were held and eventually UCD won them. The other strong party PSOE was second and there were some minorities who won some representation.

After this we had some time during which UCD governed the country before it lost lots of popularity and eventually disintegrated in 1982, when PSOE won. Around this time AP (which would later become the PP) was acquired most of the rests from UCD (whilst PSOE acquired most of the others). So we now had two majority parties AP and PSOE and some others too. Even then in 1982 as can be seen there were still various minority parties who had a (now smaller) representation in the power most of them which were left winged ended up forming IU. After this we can then see how various local parties (like CIU, PNV, HB, UV etc) keep some power (a fun effect of the regional D'Hondt system used in Spain) .

On next elections there was and adjusted result (and even less local parties with representation) with the PP eventually winning in 1996 after hard negotiations with the local parties (which led to their increase of power after that). Following the events we see how in 2000's election even less local parties had representation and eventually (with Irak's war involved) in 2004 PSOE won again the elections (and kept power until then).

As a funny fact in 2008 IU had a very small representation though it was supported by a 6% of the voters. This was also an effect of the system existing in Spain.

Also during the PP Government, a law was passed making the city councils the responsible of the management of what could be build in their lands which helped the real state based bubble since majors and smaller bureaucrats were easier to corrupt.

On the Internet side during this time we also had a law passed called LSSICE which made it easier for the government to censure pages of their dislike (amongst other things) although it gave some advantages to the service providers too.

Both laws were kept by the PSOE after it was elected.

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