Results of this Spain election in plain English? You can take home five things:
1. The People's Party (right-of-center) lost a fair number of seats in the national congress (69 lost). They did manage to take 17-percent of the national vote. If there was a 'big loser'....they were it.
2. The big gainer was the Socialists Worker's Party (29-percent of the vote). But their issue is that they didn't get a majority and will have to combine with at least one partner, to run the government.
3. The VOX Party? The far-right group which was invented in the last five years? They shocked a lot of people taking 10-percent of the vote.
4. The Pro-Catalonia Party? They did take four-percent of the voting (mostly ALL from Catalonia), and will get 15 seats in this next congress.
5. You end up in a coalition, and the Socialist Worker's Party will have to offer up something on the plate to make the partner (or partners) happy. If any situation arises, which adds conflict to the partnership....then this will fade, and another election will have to occur. All this election did was reshuffle the cards, and put a weakened situation back into play with fresh faces.
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