Election day in Spain (again)

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1. Totally agree with Pamela that some politicians are full of promises and get in and then do nothing.

   • Thanks a lot for your comment. Yes, you are right

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2. I don’t know whether you should make voting compulsory or not. I always make sure I do and if I am not sure I read up about what people are standing for.
   Some politicians are full of promises and get in and then do nothing.

   • You are right. Thanks a lot for your comment.

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3. Be careful out in Spain – the Catalan protests are still ongoing. They need to vote on when the first El Clasico will be played.

   • Thanks for your warning but I am not afraid. El Clásico should have been played. There is a minority in Catalonia that is always to protest, we are used to live with that in Spain. Yet, what they need to vote???? We had elections the other day.

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     • I am impressed by your boldness. I agree that Spain needs to fix their problems instead of letting all of the problems continue to pile up.

       • Every country has problems. I am watching the impeachment hearings in the United States for instance. In Europe, there are a lot of small political parties that are very nationalistic and populist and nobody knows what to do, look what has happened with Brexit and United Kingdom. This December a new government should be formed in Spain. The key of this government is in the hands of Esquerra Republicana of Catalonia. They have already started talking with the party of the Prime Minister, the new government should solve the problems of Spain as every government tries. But I do not really know what you have heard about Spain.

4. if someone doesn’t want to vote, then that’s their right

   • I would make voting compulsory and if somebody does not want to vote they could vote with an empty paper.

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     • honestly, I would rather make it more difficult to vote

   • There’s the option “I don’t support anyone”, at least here. I guess it doesn’t change much, but it’s something.

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5. I also think that making voting mandatory could be a good idea. Sometimes it’s difficult to pick a candidate to support and you may need to choose the lesser bad, but it’s important to participate.

   • Thanks a lot for your comment

6. There were many parties in my country too since the reformation in 1998. Many new parties and many parties have died. Elections are a political right so in our country it is also not an obligation but a campaign to participate is encouraged. According to data from the General Election Commission (KPU), abstentions were 23.30% in the 2004 presidential election, 27.45% in 2009, and 30.42% in 2014 while abstention data in the 2019 presidential election reached 19.24%. A significant decrease.

   • That is very interesting. Thanks for commenting.

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     • You are most welcome, my friend.

7. My opinion is that you cannot force anyone to vote … do we not live in a democracy and it is the will of every citizen to vote or not

   • Thanks a lot for your comment. Many people think like you.

     • Right now I was listening to reports that protesters had closed the highway between Spain and France and that the police had violently driven them … I hope you are not from Catalonia and that you are safe, dear friend

       • I am from Aragon dear friend, this is happening in the north of Catalonia. Truck drivers cannot work and they are not the ones to blame for anything.

         • Is Aragon a city in the province of Aragon about 300 km from Barcelona?
            People who are not guilty are most affected

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8. Good luck with the election votes! Very important.

   • Thanks a lot for your comment.

9. I see that you have a similar situation to us. We also have a lot of customers. Right now, one party has left the government so we have a small crisis.

   • Very interesting. Politics in Europe is always somewhat complex.

10. It is interesting when you consider elections. We have the technology now, to actually allow people to cast a vote, and have it counted.

    But we relish the old systems that take time.

    Elections are something I dread personally. Because we are wasting time, productivity and in the end it may not matter anyway.

    Plus the ads on TV are horrible.

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    • We relish the old systems because they still require the human touch. Voting is a very personal matter. Many people don’t want to leave it in the hands of a machine. It’s not like they’re voting in an American Idol competition. The matters they vote on and the people they vote for will have a direct impact on their personal daily lives. I don’t blame people for holding on. They already cheat the old voting system. I can only imagine what could be done with a computerized voting system.

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      • nothing.
        if the voting system leveraged Blockchain and secure communication not a single thing could be done.

        It would be a true election delivering the will of the people.

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      • Thanks a lot for your comment.

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    • Thanks a lot for your comment. I have watched American political ads sometimes and it is interesting to see how the candidates compete and attack each other.

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      • we didn’t use to have political ads like that in the US. it has only been the last few years.

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        • You are so right about that. I started really noticing the ads when George Bush Sr. ran for president, By the time he took office he was hoping to get past the election and serve “a kinder gentler America”.

        • I did not know that. Thanks for commenting

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11. Indeed!!! The result of these elections put Spain in a more difficult position than it was last April when the last elections took place

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