Spain,a country mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

Its territory also includes

two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in
the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla make Spain the only European
country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco).Several small islands in
the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south
and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and
northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and
the Atlantic Ocean. With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the largest country in
Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union, and
the fourth largest country in the European continent. By population, Spain is the sixth largest in
Europe and the fifth in the European Union. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other
major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Málaga and Bilbao

Romania a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders
the Black Sea to the southeast, Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia
to the southwest, and Moldova to the east. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With
a total area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi), Romania is the 12th largest country and also
the 7th most populous member state of the European Union, having almost 20 million inhabitants. Its
capital and largest city is Bucharest and other major urban areas include Iași, Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca,
and Constanța.

Romania's political framework is a semi-presidential representative democratic republic where the

Prime Minister is the head of government and the President is the head of state. Executive power is
exercised by the President of the republic and the government. Romania has a multi-party system, with
legislative power vested in the government and the two chambers of Parliament: the Chamber of
Deputies and the Senate. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
The politics of Spain takes place under the framework established by the Constitution of 1978. Spain is
established as a social and democratic sovereign country[1] wherein the national sovereignty is vested
in the people, from which the powers of the state emanate.

Political parties running for the Spanish general election,

2011 [edit]
[3]

 Amaiur
 Partido Andalucista (PA)
 Andecha Astur
Political parties without any representation[edit]
 Estat Català (1922–present)
 Partido Regionalista del País Leonés (Regionalist Party of the Leonese Country) Salamanca, Zamora,
León PREPAL (1980–present)
 Los Verdes (1984–present)

Social conservatism parties[edit]

 Spanish Alternative (2003–present)

Communist parties[edit]

 Communist Party of Spain (1921–present)

 Communist Unification of Spain (1973–present)
 Partido Comunista Obrero Español PCOE (1973–present)
 Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España (1984–present)(PCPE)
 Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) (2006-present)
 Revolutionary Left (2017-present)

Nationalist parties[edit]

 Democracia Nacional (1995–present)

 España 2000 (2002–present)
 Party for Freedom (Spain) (2013–present)

Illegal parties[edit]

 ANV (EAE - ANV)

 Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (Partido Comunista de las Tierras Vascas) PCTV - EHAK
 Euskal Herritarrok has been made illegal by the Spanish Supreme Court of Justice (Tribunal Supremo), which regards
it as part of ETA, which is banned as a terrorist group

Defunct major parties[edit]

 Radical Republican Party (1908–1936)
 Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, the leading right-wing party of the Second Spanish Republic (1933–
1937)
 Falange Española de las JONS (1937–1977)
 Partido Socialista Popular (1968–1978)
 Partit Socialista de Mallorca, absorbed into PSM - Nationalist Agreement
 Partido Reformista Democrático
 Unió Valenciana

Defunct Nationalist parties[edit]

 National Alliance July 18 (1977)

 National Union (Spain) (1979–1982)
 Movimiento Social Republicano (1999–2018)
Defunct parties[edit]

 Republican Left (1934–1959) (Izquierda Republicana)

 Partido Andalucista (1965–2015)
 Partido Galeguista (1977–1984)
 Coalición Galega (1983–2012)
 On the 1st of October 2017 an unofficial vote took place in Catalonia over whether or not the
region should break away from Spain and become an independent country.

 The region currently has some powers to make decisions about how it is run, but it is still part of
the country of Spain. This is called being an autonomous region of Spain.

 This referendum vote was organised and supported by the region's government, of which Carles
Puigdemont is in charge. 2.2 million people were reported to have voted out of the 5.3 million
people who could have voted. According to the Catalan authorities, just under 90% of those who
voted backed independence.

 However, the national Spanish government said the vote over whether or not it should become
fully independent was illegal and it sent police to try to prevent it from happening.

 There were lots of protests after people disagreed with the violent way that the police tried to
stop what was happening.

catalonia has a lot going for it economically - it has the highest GDP [gross domestic product] of any of
Spain's regions, with an economy about the size of Denmark's.
When it comes to trade, it punches above its weight, too. In 2017, its exports were worth €71bn
(£63bn), more than a quarter of the national total, with cars, food products, and chemicals just some of
the products shipped elsewhere.