A person: a vote?

A simple mathematical exercise, for all those who insist that the Spanish electoral system favors the nationalists. It is a simple account: to divide the number of votes of the last personal details by the number of obtained benches. And this way it is discovered, with a calculator and big stupor, that in Spain there is a party that a deputy takes as every 484.935 votes, and is called an Izquierda Unida. There is other that achieved 306.078 votes for only one delegated, and his name is UPyD. There are several nationalists of left whom it costs approximately hundred thousand votes every bench: Republican Esquerra of Catalunya and the Nationalistic Block Galego. There is a nationalistic party of rights that a deputy obtained for every 77.942 votes: Convergence and It Joined; and another, Canary Coalition, which achieved two benches to 87.314 votes each one. And there are two big parties, the kings of the chamber, for whom every bench has gone out for approximately 66.700 votes: Spanish socialist party and PP.

Only the PNV, to 51.021 votes for every bench, and Nafarroa Bai, to 62.398 votes, obtains deputies at better price. But if the vote in Spain was proportional, the nationalistic parties, in whole, two more deputies would obtain; IU-ICV would have 13 benches and not two; UPyD, 5. But Spanish socialist party and PP would lose between 8 and 9 benches each one.

Last week, the lideresa of UPyD, Rosa Díez, presented in the Congress a proposal not of law to ask the Government to reform the electoral law. For almost two years, there is employed at the Parliament a subcommittee that will present a reform proposal some day, or one waits for that; the contracting subcommittee of the first part does not seem to be in the hurry. It is not necessary to have a calculator to foresee for what every deputy voted: only IU and UPyD endorsed the motion. So that then they say that the consensus is impossible.