Looking at the election results from the Iberian Peninsula, one could get nostalgic. In Spain, the rightwing Partido Popular (Popular Party) won 34 percent of the vote and the socialists of prime minister Pedro Sánchez won 30 percent.
In Portugal, prime minister Luis Montenegro's rightwing party won 31 percent of the vote and the Socialist Party 32 percent.&n...
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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.