Impact of the Results of the General Elections on Political Pluralism and Internal Democracy Inside Political Parties

Abstract

The appearance on the political scene of two new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, may assume an inflection point in the current Spanish Democratic system. The scope of this paper is to analyze how this emergence may influence to guarantee the internal democracy in political parties. Actually, the intra-party democracy meaning the possibility of politic participation inside the parties, is of the prime importance. Enhanced and bigger politic participation of the citizens depends mostly on the possibilities of getting to a successful end this internal politic participation. Therefore, in this paper we analyze the existence of social forces that might help in fulfilling this work. In this sense, we pay special attention to the denominated currents of opinion inside the parties. Apart from that, the best way to ensure intra-party democracy is the existence of political pluralism, and consequently the emergence of new parties in the political scene must be viewed favorably.