On February 13th early elections were held to the parliament of the Spanish region of Castile and León, resulting in a bit of a backfire for regional centre-right President Alfonso Fernández Mañueco. Why should we care so much about these elections in a lesser known Spanish region? Well aside from some interesting local parties and issues of rural depopulation, these elections told us a lot about the direction fo Spanish politics and had a profound national fallout. What do these elections tell us about the future of Spanish politics with a bumper election year on the horizon and polarisation growing ever stronger? Join us to find out.
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