Update on the Spanish Parliamentary Elections

A leftist coalition won the required vote of confidence in the Spanish Parliament to form a government late last month, after elections in which the center-right party had won a plurality of votes and seats, but far short of a necessary majority. As I had posted in July, the conservatives tried to form a coalition government with the leading far-right party, but still came up slightly short of a majority of seats in Parliament. Such far-right parties, which are usually anti-migrant, pro-Russian and anti-European Union, have often dragged down conservatives in elections or, when conservatives have joined with them in coalition governments, it has resulted in the collapse of the government or embarassment from scandals, such as accepting funding from the Russian Federation, which is led by a tyrannical ex-Soviet intelligence officer who interferes in the elections in European and Western States, including in American politics, as I have been posting. The ruling Socialists were then able to form a coalition with the pro-independence party from Catalonia after promising their leaders amnesty for their illegal attempts to secede from Spain. Spain is an ally of the United States as a fellow member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.