Spain: Regional Elections in the Midst of a Political Dead End

... Socialists’ Party of Galicia and the Galician Nationalist Bloc). At the two most recent elections in 2009 and 2012 , the conservatives won an absolute majority of seats in parliament and formed a one-party government. Following the regional and municipal elections in 2015, Galicia became the only autonomous community in Spain where the People’s Party enjoyed an absolute majority of deputies in the local parliament. If none of the candidates receives a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies, the King will dissolve both chambers of parliament and call ...