Vote in the Spanish general election! (yes, AGAIN)

[celedhring]

YAAAAY!

We're at the fruit market stage of the election which I really like.

VOX is a joke with no real impact overall so this is just a funny side story. If you want silly antics amongst the big parties, you might want to check the brouhaha about Pedro Sánchez apparently wiping his hand after shaking it with a black family or the jumbotron-gate in Barcelona with Ciudadanos sponsoring one for people to watch Spain's games during the Eurocup claiming that the city council wanted to ban them because they're a bunch of nasty independentists or something. 

Only in Spain a political rally can be centered around watching Spain beat the turks at football 

[Sheilbh]

Can't quite work out the deputy PM greeted by a black man pic...

[celedhring]

Speaking of the fruit market... in Spain there's a provision that forbids media from publishing polls one week before the election. Spanish media resort to "creative" methods of skirting such ban.

A common one, is disguising it as a report on the fruit market 



Are there similar provisions in other countries? It just looks stupid in this day and age.

[The Larch]

Can't quite work out the deputy PM greeted by a black man pic...

It wasn't the deputy PM, but PSOE's candidate, he was walking down the street and shook the hands of a black family he passed by, and afterwards made some rubbing gesture with them. I guess there's a video...

[Sheilbh]

I meant on the front page of El Pais today.

There seemed to be some Internet furore I wasn't following over it.

[The Larch]

I meant on the front page of El Pais today.

There seemed to be some Internet furore I wasn't following over it.

Just checked it but couldn't find it, can you share a link please?

[The Larch]

In less savoury news, it has surfaced through hidden recordings that our Interior minister (a, shall we say, colourful guy), has been handling a secret police group in charge of getting dirt on Catalan separatist politicians and leaking it to the press in order to sabotage Catalonia's independence movement. Recently similar stuff has been done with Podemos, and it would be no surprise at all to know that it had been engineered from the top as well.

[celedhring]

In less savoury news, it has surfaced through hidden recordings that our Interior minister (a, shall we say, colourful guy), has been handling a secret police group in charge of getting dirt on Catalan separatist politicians and leaking it to the press in order to sabotage Catalonia's independence movement. Recently similar stuff has been done with Podemos, and it would be no surprise at all to know that it had been engineered from the top as well.

I know this is "I'm shocked there's gambling in this establishment" news, but there shouldn't be gambling in this establishment. Pretty infuriating affair.

[The Larch]

In less savoury news, it has surfaced through hidden recordings that our Interior minister (a, shall we say, colourful guy), has been handling a secret police group in charge of getting dirt on Catalan separatist politicians and leaking it to the press in order to sabotage Catalonia's independence movement. Recently similar stuff has been done with Podemos, and it would be no surprise at all to know that it had been engineered from the top as well.

I know this is "I'm shocked there's gambling in this establishment" news, but there shouldn't be gambling in this establishment. Pretty infuriating affair.

Fernández Díaz is surely one of the more calamitous ministers in recent history.

[Liep]

Are you preparing a third thread?

[celedhring]

Right now polls are predicting another deadlock indeed. Although there will be more pressure (from home and from abroad) to get a deal done this time. The repeat election only seems to have benefited Podemos, and I doubt that was the aim of the establishment parties.

[Sheilbh]

Leaked exit poll with a Podemos-PSOE majority. Which I'm sure is what Brussels and Berlin were wanting to hear at this point

[The Larch]

Leaked exit poll with a Podemos-PSOE majority. Which I'm sure is what Brussels and Berlin were wanting to hear at this point

At this point anything is preferable to PP continuing by default.

[celedhring]

Leaked exit poll with a Podemos-PSOE majority. Which I'm sure is what Brussels and Berlin were wanting to hear at this point

I think Brussels will be able to sleep tonight. With half the vote counted, it looks like the Socialists are retaining #2 and a coalition with Podemos will fall short of a majority.

[Zanza]

Looks like the establishment parties won...?