Editing Two-party system (section)

=== Spain ===
{{Main|Political parties in Spain}}
A report in ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' in 2008 suggested that [[Spain]] was moving toward a "greater two-party system" while acknowledging that Spain has many small parties.<ref name="twsNovGb">{{cite news |author=Robert Marquand |date=March 11, 2008 |title=In Spain's elections, Socialists win with liberal appeal |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2008/0311/p07s03-wogn.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101107105432/http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2008/0311/p07s03-wogn.html |archive-date=2010-11-07 |access-date=2010-11-07 |newspaper=Christian Science Monitor |quote=The outcome also suggests that Spain, which has many small parties, is moving toward a greater two-party system – even as basic splits between right and left are deepening and becoming more contentious.}}</ref> A 2015 article published by ''[[WashingtonPost.com]]'' written by academic Fernando Casal Bértoa noted the decline in support for the two main parties, the [[People's Party (Spain)|People's Party]] (PP) and the [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (PSOE) in recent years, with these two parties winning only 52 percent of the votes in that year's [[2015 Spanish regional elections|regional]] and [[2015 Spanish local elections|local]] elections. He explained this as being due to the [[2008–16 Spanish financial crisis|Spanish economic crisis]], a series of [[Corruption in Spain#Corruption cases in the post-Franco era|political corruption scandals]] and broken campaign promises. He argued that the emergence of the new [[Citizens (Spanish political party)|Citizens]] and [[Podemos (Spanish political party)|Podemos]] parties would mean the political system would evolve into a two-bloc system, with an alliance of the PP and Citizens on the right facing a leftist coalition of PSOE, Podemos and the [[United Left (Spain)|United Left]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Casal Bértoa |first=Fernando |date=19 June 2015 |title=Shake-up in Spain: Reform parties have broken the old two-party cartel |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/06/19/shake-up-in-spain-reform-parties-have-broken-the-old-two-party-cartel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929001131/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/06/19/shake-up-in-spain-reform-parties-have-broken-the-old-two-party-cartel/ |archive-date=29 September 2017 |access-date=23 September 2017 |website=WashingtonPost.com}}</ref> Far-right [[Vox (political party)|Vox]] party became the third largest group in the Spanish parliament in the late 2010s.