La fragmentación parlamentaria nacional y la reforma del sistema electoral de la Región de Murcia: ¿nuevas oportunidades para un partido regionalista?

Abstract

The parliamentary fragmentation after the general elections of 2016, marked by the decline of the two major major parties and the emergence of new political formations, has made even more evident the need to count on the support of regional political parties at the time of take forward political initiatives of a national nature, as well as the enormous revenue that such support supposes for the territories where these parties have electoral support. Also, the fragmented composition of the Regional Assembly of Murcia fruit of the regional elections of 2015, in which the PP lost the absolute majority that it held, brought with it a transcendental reform of the electoral law of Murcia. Both factors have favored the creation and expectations of success of new regionalist parties in the Region of Murcia, whose attempts to have a space in the regional party system, however,  have been unsuccessful for the moment.