Coalitional avoidance or political strategy? The absence of national coalition governments in Spain.

Abstract

Although in the recent Spanish political history there have been different parliamentary situations that predicted the formation of a national coalition government, this has not happened in any of them. The effects of the 2015 electoral processes both at the national and subnational level, together with the failed investiture of Pedro Sánchez in September 2019, have made it even more necessary to try to understand why the coalition government does not appear as a normal result in Spanish politics.

Keywords:

Coalition Governments; Minority Governments; Parliamentarism; Spain; Autonomous Communities