Dal bipartitismo imperfetto al bipolarismo necessario. La legislatura di coalizione e il riassestamento della forma di governo spagnola

From an imperfect bipartidism to a necessary bipolarism. The coalition term and the restructuring of the Spanish form of government

Abstract

From an imperfect bipartidism to a necessary bipolarism. The coalition term and the restructuring of the Spanish form of government - The paper aims to examine the extent to which the Spanish political system has processed the disruptive changes that have occurred since 2015 and whether it has found a new order capable of guaranteeing renewed stability to the form of government and to the whole constitutional system. This analysis is focused on the current parliamentary term, which has seen, along with the emergence of the first nationwide coalition government, the sharpening of ideological polarization between parties and the affirmation on national scale of the ultra-right Vox party, the consequences of the constitutional crisis generated by the unilateral secession attempt in Catalonia, numerous early elections in the Autonomous Communities and an unprecedented institutional crisis.