Spain waiting for new parliamentary elections. All attempts to form a government at the end of December 2015 ballot failed. First, the conservative leader Mariano Rajoy refused to head the Cabinet of Ministers, as his people’s party, although victorious, were unable to obtain an absolute majority of votes. Then the deputies did not support the candidacy of the socialist Pedro Sanchez, proposed by the king Philip VI. The subsequent negotiations between the various political forces to no avail. In the end, the monarch decided to dissolve Parliament and to hold the June 26 new elections.
Will they change something in the current situation, is unknown. Organized at the end of last year, the vote showed that the two-party system in Spain does not work anymore. Popular and the Spanish socialist workers party lost the support of the inhabitants of the Kingdom. But new forces “Podemos” and “Citizens” still not strong enough.
But the country can not exist without a normal government, but because elections are required. It is expensive. But because Philip VI appealed to the parties that claim to seats in Parliament, to save money on their election campaigns.
According to the news Agency Europe Press, organization of voting in Spain is usually of 130 million euros, for 3.62 euros (4.1 dollars) for each voter (3,56 in 2015). It’s a bit more than the average for Western countries. As shown by a study conducted by experts of the United Nations based on 2004 data, in the USA and most Western European countries elections are from 1 to 3 dollars per voter.
In Latin America less likely to spend money in Chile ($1.2), Costa Rica (1.8) and Brazil (2,3). In Africa is Ghana (0,7), Senegal (1,2), Benin (1,6) and Botswana (2,7), Asia – Pakistan (0,5) and India (1). On the opposite side of the ranking: in Latamerica – Mexico (5,9), El Salvador (4.1) and Paraguay (3,7), in Africa – Lesotho (6,9), Liberia (6,1) and Uganda (3.7 V). It is interesting that Russia in this list is separately mentioned as the country with the most expensive elections in Eastern Europe – 7.5 per dollar on every voter.
