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Spain’s political landscape has undergone remarkable changes in the last few years. The coming together of the groups that gave rise to the 15M anti-austerity movement, and that led to the recently created party of Podemos followed by the progressive loss of popularity and credibility of the governing party, crystallized in December into a new parliament, with the traditional hegemonic parties, Partido Popular (PP) and Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), suffering severe losses.
The current state of affairs could have been foreseen after the local and regional elections in May, when the two-party system that had ruled Spain for almost 40 years was overturned by the electoral gains made by Podemos and Ciudadanos, a different self-styled centre-right political movement.
