I socialisti di Sánchez subiscono pesanti perdite alle elezioni regionali spagnole

Is any one surprised?. The fact that people are turning to Vox ( far right party) is bad. It shows people are unhappy with the current government. Cost of living is outrageous, salaries are not growing even for educated and skilled Spaniards. Housing is out of reach for the avg worker in almost every province. He was terrible in 2021 (COVID) when he forced everyone to lock themselves in for months and when he relaxed the locked down he prohibited any travel across province lines while Madrid was flooded with French tourists because it was dirt cheap for them. People haven’t forgotten. GDP might better than ever but the avg Joe is not seeing any of that. 

If left-wing parties don’t turn to supply-side policy, they will keep losing elections.

Subsidies should never be long-term solutions.

It really shows how a reasonably competent government cannot stand against the poisoning of the media, especially social networks.

PSOE (centre-left “socialist” party in Spain) can be criticized for many things, but overall the economy is in good shape, unemployment is at record lows, minimum wages are rising, and their occasional scandals are pretty much average for a spanish party. Whatever problems these guys cannot solve, like housing, the right have proven to be far worse at tackling them.

Yet people are flocking to the hyper-corrupt far right populist party that has been an absolute trainwreck in every regional government they have managed to snatch some power in. So either we spanish people are just helpessly stupid beyond comprehension, or the mass disinformation on social media is completely out of control.

After years of constant attacks on the PSOE and on Sánchez personally, while governing in coalition, going through multiple global crises back to back, and on top of that facing a brutal housing price crisis, these results are hardly the “heavy loss” some headlines suggest. The PSOE loses five seats and the PP loses two, yet the narrative being pushed is one of a decisive shift. What the numbers actually show is generalized wear and fragmentation, not a clear victory or a political turning point. Calling this a collapse says more about the framing than about the outcome itself.