Have there been any regional elections?

This has been a plebiscite against erratic and suicidal policy Zapatero rather than use regional election. Only this can explain the regional map of Spain has virtually erased the PSOE government of all autonomy.

That has benefited Francisco Camps, which still has an absolute majority in Las Corts though the road has lost more than 100,000 votes compared to 2007. If you have been so resounding success was supposed to have doubled its direct rival, Jorge Alart, as it did in Madrid Esperanza Aguirre Thomas Gomez.

And the thud of the PSOE has been general. No specific problems have been imported from one region or another, but the citizens voted against the PSOE. And where the PP could not be the beneficiary of those votes of punishment, they have gone to CiU in Catalonia, or until the PNV in the Basque Country Bildu.

Zapatero will hold responsible, safe, regardless of what they just show the voters. But if you ignore the cries citizen to advance the general election, perhaps no other after market pressures expected from international ratings agencies and the European Union itself. They all want to clarify the situation, knowing what will happen to the Spanish public debt and if the Autonomous Communities will reduce its deficit or tururu going to tell the president of Spain.

For all this, these elections were not autonomous, but the first round of a general. And in this confrontation between the two major parties no political formations that serve as hinge, except Madrid, where he has won seats in the UPyD Rosa Díez.

Intermediate parties in Spain are apparently nationalists, ie those who just do not believe the Spanish unit: what a paradox. Still less can it be the United Left of Cayo Lara, located not in the middle, but to the left of the PSOE. If there are still liberal and green parties, as in other European countries ...

In Valencia three conclusions can be short term: 1) The next punishment will be for Corts George Alart-not only for his own-but by the clamp between the PP and flooding EU formations and Commitment who will want to take away their political space, 2) the only danger on the horizon for Francisco Camps will be a judicial drift tricky Gürtel case and not the opposition of a frayed PSPV-PSOE, and 3) the ordeal begins when Mariano Rajoy get to La Moncloa and say enough of extravagance and tied the males, because there is no money for pipes.

And there are victories, like Paco Camps yesterday, which can be splendid, but ultimately end up taking its toll.