2015/08/08 by Braulio Gómez Fortes, Ignacio Urquizu · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Austerity #Democracy #Human Rights and Immigration #Inequality #Language change #Law #Political Systems and Governance #Political economy #Political science #Political system #Politics #Public administration #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1080/13597566.2015.1083013
openalex publication_date 2015/08/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The autonomous elections held on 25 May 2015 took place simultaneously in 13 of the 17 Spanish autonomous communities (CCAA), leading to the most profound change in the autonomous party system seen in Spain in the last 20 years. A significant number of Spanish citizens hold the two main parties—the PP and the PSOE—responsible for being unable to solve their economic problems and for having pursued their austerity policies and containment of social expenditure to the extent of giving rise to the greatest inequality experienced in Spanish society in history. Furthermore, and as important as the economic crisis, support for the new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, has been linked to the emergence in Spanish public debate of party regeneration and the corruption scandals that tainted the main parties and most institutions in the years prior to the elections on 25 May 2015.