Political+Issues+of+Spain

Political Issues of Spain Spain is a constitutional monarchy, which means that there is an established set of principles governing a state with a king, queen or emperor. Every year to four years, members of the 350-seated Congress of Deputies are elected by a popular vote. Of the 259 members of the Senate, 208 are directly elected, while 51 are appointed by legal legislatures (people who have the power to make the laws). Legislatures are on that role for about 4 years, until the counsel votes again for the new representatives. The government is now at an unruly state. The nation is stable with all its imports and exports but the government itself is having problems staying stable as they have a terrorist attack to think about solving, they need to make sure all the governmental bills are paid and the governmental counsel have to make important decisions about the recession that they might be heading into because the banks are lending too much money to citizens who are not putting it to good use and paying the bank back. So this causes the government to become very unstable and have some minor as well as major issues to deal with at the same time. For the people it means, that they have to deal with all the political and governmental problems, even though it doesn’t concern them so much, but it still affects the way that they live and their normal routine life. This then causes a huge global change to the nation as this will affect the way the country is run too. This affects the county’s neighbours because if the economy is going bad then the neighboring countries will not want to co-operate with them as they don’t want their economy to fail as they have. But if there was good news about Spain, the neighboring countries might want to be more involved with Spain as they can improve their own economy. So out of all the issues that can happen, the neighbouring countries will help Spain improve through their successes, as well as themselves because they know that this will boost their own economy. But if Spain were struggling with national problems, then it won't affect the neighbouring countries so much, but if Spain had an international problem, the neighbouring countries will then back away, because they know that if Spain's reputation goes down and then if they help, their reputation will go down nationwide and will cause them to loose customers for importing and exporting goods and services.

In this statistics graph above it shows the statistics of Spain over the years and how it has improved. The direct means within the country itself and Spanish companies are merging and helping out other Spanish companies. Portfolio means that some business go through the legal work and papers (from abroad) to find out if investing in the company is the best way to spend their money, and the total shows what they have received at the end of each year and it has increased a lot in 2006 but when it got to 2009 everything started to drop dramatically as Spain started to go into a recession and are struggling to keep up business not only nationally but internationally because other nations will not help as they dont want their rating to go down. And this can happen by Spain borrowing too much money from a neighbouring country or Spain's allies, then when it comes to paying the nation back and Spain doesn't have the money to pay them, this will cause conflict and become a bigger, much worse situation. And this might be the case why no one will help less developing countries.

**Negatives:** If Spain is having problems like a terrorist attack, recession or even a minor conflict with other nations, neighbouring countries will not involve themselves as they want to keep their high rank on the world chart, but if they do help out Spain with their, national or international problems they might loose some points of the rating charts as their economy is going down with Spain, but also if the results of the incident turn out good, then it will help the other neighbouring country and improve both of the globally.

**Positives:** The positive side is that if Spain gains a lot of points on the ranking charts other countries will want to help out, thinking that it might boost their economy too and also Spain can create new neighbouring alliances and have more connections around the world to import, export and trade goods and services. The politics of the country is sorted out by votes to see who will be positioned where in the important rankings of politics as the citizens want to make the right choice and vote for someone who they can rely on to change the way things are run in their nation for the goods of their own change in lifestyle.

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