The Choices for Europe

Wikipedia has a list of the 32 parties on offer for the European Elections (the blue voting paper – the white one is the municipal election). Besides our old favourites of the PP, PSOE, C’s and Podemos, this includes some spicier choices including several coalitions of smaller regional parties, such as Coalición por una Europa Solidaria, which includes the Partido Nacionalista Vasco, Coalición Canaria, Compromiso por Galicia and a few others – and the Ahora Repúblicas which is an alliance of six far-left republican parties.

We have the fascists (FE de Las Jons etc – recommended in 2009 to British expatriates by the Brexit creature Daniel Hannan) and the communists with Partido Comunista de los Trabajadores de España and a few similar, including the, er, positive sounding Izquierda en Positivo... and a party that sounds like it’s made up of motorcycle mechanics called the PCPE-PCPC-PCPA. Communists again.

Por un Mundo Más Justo will attract support from the utopians among us. The anti-copyright Pirates have a candidature (the editor of Business over Tapas is tempted) at Pirates de Catalunya-European Pirates. The Greens are at Coalición Verde-Europa Ciudadana.

...and of course there’s the irrepressible doggyists over at Pacma (Fido for President).

There’s Andalucía por Sí (which doesn’t have much of a chance in our opinion) and the Extremeños PREX CREX (which sounds like a packet of crisps). The Movimiento Independiente Euro Latino (which we had to look up) is another alternative for the discerning voter and appears to speak for the naturalised South Americans in Europe.

Iniciativa Femenina (slightly irritating for them what with the pesky Law of Parity, with every other candidate a man) is another one to watch (heh!).

But Volt is our choice.  Volt (here) is a ‘a pan-European progressive political movement’ and the only European party that has people from different countries on its list. It doesn’t represent just one country in Brussels (so irritating if you are a foreign resident in a European country, with MEPs who do not speak for you), it offers a voice for all of us.