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May 11, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal It is far too early to be confident about whether the overwhelming victory of the right and far right in the
That the result marks a turn of the political tide is, of course, the hope and forecast of the victorious right-wing People’s Party (PP) and the racist far-right Vox. Just as inevitably, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the forces to its left the Greens-like More Madrid and the radical Unidas Podemos (UP) desire and predict that this apparent surge of reaction will prove to be a short-lived, Madrid-specific, nightmare.
If the poorest 70% could be persuaded to vote with even half that commitment, a victory for the broadly defined left the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), the Greens-style More Madrid and the radical UP would be certain.
When May 4 arrived, the participation rate certainly leaped, climbing from 64.27% at the 2019 poll to 76.25%, as an extra 400,000 turned out to vote, despite the ongoing COVID-19 danger.
However, this tide was overwhelmingly composed of people intending to vote for the PP of incumbent Madrid premier Isabel Ayuso, or for the racist Vox, led by Rocio Monasterio, granddaughter of a Cuban landowner expropriated in the 1959 revolution.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a conservative politician dubbed a “Trumpista” by her opponents, won the Madrid regional election by a landslide after she refused to shut down the capital’s bars and shops.