Spanish general election · 29 November 2026
Who should you vote for on 29 November?
A voting quiz of 6, 16 or 24 questions, whichever you prefer: answer them and we’ll tell you which party you should vote for in the Spanish general election on 29 November 2026.
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The favourite voting guide of 8 million Catalans. Allegedly.
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What the quizzes cover: Taxes, Healthcare, Commuter trains, Spying, Housing, Emergencies, Democracy, Monarchy, Investment, Film and TV, Free speech, Rights, Promises, Education, Wages, Mediterranean Corridor, Europe, Justice, Regional funding, Parties, School, State secrets, Self-government, Decisions.
What the parties think: how each party would answer, and why.
Your result
Vote Junts, the only ones who won’t roll over for the Spanish nationalist regime like lapdogs
The CUP, the radical pro-independence left, would be the wisest vote, but it isn’t standing in the Spanish general election. ERC made Pedro Sánchez prime minister and Salvador Illa Catalan president in exchange for promises that are gathering dust in a drawer. That leaves Junts, the party of Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan president Madrid removed in 2017.
Vote for any Spanish party
Pick whichever you like: for Catalonia, it makes no difference. There’s one thing they always agree on.
Your score:
0 · Spanish-nationalist numptyCatalan · 100
Textbook centralism. Madrid will put up a statue of you.
Unionist, but with nuances. Not many.
Fence-sitter: a firm, resounding maybe. But staying neutral means taking Madrid’s side.
Dinner-party Catalanist. One more step and you’re there.
Pro-independence to the bone. You didn’t need to take the quiz.
Independence first
If you want the best for Catalonia, the only thing that can really help us is independence from the Spanish state.
And we’ll only get there together. Those of us who want independence are a majority when we link arms and a minority when we squabble over party labels. One front, one goal: that’s the first step, and everything else comes after.
We’re not giving up on anything. Social rights, our language, schools, healthcare, wages: we want all of it, and we want it better. But none of these battles can be fully won while Madrid gets to decide them. Independence first; the rest we’ll decide ourselves, at home.
If we don’t do it now, the Spanish state will keep grinding us down as a people, bit by bit, taking its time. If we do, anything is possible.
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Why only Junts
The CUP
On 12 October 2026 its members decided, with 68.9% of the vote, not to run.
Sources: Demòcrata, 12-10-2026
ERC
ERC voted to make Pedro Sánchez prime minister in 2023 and made Salvador Illa Catalan president in 2024. The income tax the Catalan government was due to collect in 2026 has been put off until 2028 at the earliest, and the new funding deal and the debt write-off have been shelved with the dissolution of the Spanish Parliament.
Sources: NacióDigital, 31-7-2025 · NacióDigital, 5-10-2026
For 29 November, ERC has put Podemos candidates on its lists. In 2017, in the Catalan Parliament, Podemos abstained on the referendum law and voted against the law for the transition to a republic.
Sources: Orain, 12-10-2026 · 3Cat, 7-9-2017
“Eixamplar la base” (“broaden the base”): ERC’s leader, Oriol Junqueras, was already writing about it in 2011, and since 2018 it has been the party’s strategy. In 2021 he gave up on the unilateral route: “altres vies no són viables ni desitjables” (“other routes are neither viable nor desirable”).
Sources: NacióDigital, 14-8-2011 · 3Cat, 5-3-2018 · 3Cat, 7-6-2021
ERC’s Gabriel Rufián is famous for a tweet of 26 October 2017 that everyone just happened to read as a reply to Carles Puigdemont: “155 monedas de plata” (“155 pieces of silver”). He says it wasn’t aimed at him.
Sources: 20minutos, 27-10-2017
In 2026 Rufián and Irene Montero (Podemos) launched a front with the Spain-wide left; Junqueras didn’t turn up. ERC’s leadership has left it at putting Podemos candidates on its lists.
Sources: NacióDigital, 3-10-2026 · Orain, 12-10-2026
Our opinion: Rufián is more focused on Spain and on his own ego than on the wellbeing of Catalans.
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We placed the parties according to their votes and manifestos. How each would answer, and why: what the parties think.
What about the other parties?
PSOE
On 27 October 2017 it voted in the Senate for Article 155, which removed the Catalan government and dissolved the Catalan Parliament.
Sources: The Objective, 27-10-2017
In Congress it voted against a referendum in Catalonia in 2012, 2014, 2016 and twice in 2021.
Sources: 3Cat, 9-10-2012 · Deia, 27-5-2021
On 13 May 2026, in the Senate, it voted with the PP and Vox against Catalonia having its own minimum wage. And it passed the amnesty after saying it wouldn’t, yet the new funding deal and the debt write-off it did promise have been shelved.
Sources: Demòcrata, 13-5-2026 · NacióDigital, 5-10-2026
The Sánchez government has taken four Catalan housing laws to the Constitutional Court, including the rent cap. In 2018, to be fair, it withdrew some of Rajoy’s challenges.
Sources: Constitutional Court, STC 57/2022 · Constitutional Court, STC 28/2022
Budgeted investment in Catalonia that the state didn’t carry out: €3,734 million under Zapatero (2009–2011; it delivered 62%) and €4,777 million under Sánchez (2019–2023; 48%).
Sources: Catalan government, note on state investment, December 2024 (PDF, table 1)
Podemos
On 23 September 2025, together with the PP and Vox, it voted down letting the Catalan government manage immigration. Ione Belarra had said the Mossos, the Catalan police, would carry out “racist raids”.
Sources: RTVC, 23-9-2025 · 3Cat, 21-7-2025
Comuns
On 27 October 2017, 8 of the 11 MPs of Catalunya Sí que es Pot, the Comuns’ forerunner in the Catalan Parliament, held up their “no” ballots on the declaration of independence, in a secret vote.
Sources: El Independiente, 27-10-2017
On 29 November they’re running in the Broad Front with Más Madrid. On 24 May 2019, asked about the suspension of the four jailed MPs, Íñigo Errejón, then Más Madrid’s candidate in the Madrid regional election, said: “Te tengo que reconocer que me pilla muy lejos, porque los madrileños tenemos una cosa superimportante” (“I have to admit it feels very far away to me, because we in Madrid have something super important”).
Sources: Diari de Tarragona, 13-10-2026 · En Blau (El Nacional), 24-5-2019, with the video
PP
On 27 October 2017 the Rajoy government invoked Article 155: it removed the Catalan government, dissolved the Catalan Parliament and called elections.
Sources: BOE, Royal Decree 946/2017 · The Objective, 27-10-2017
In 2006 it collected four million signatures so that the whole of Spain could vote on Catalonia’s Statute of Autonomy, and took it to the Constitutional Court. The Andalusian statute, which the PP voted for, has 42 articles carbon-copied from the Catalan one.
Sources: Público, 15-9-2017 · elDiario.es (Canarias Ahora), 14-7-2007
The Rajoy government and PP MPs have taken eight Catalan housing laws to the Constitutional Court, including the PAH housing movement’s anti-eviction law, passed unanimously. Compulsory social rent and the rent cap were both struck down there.
Sources: 3Cat, 28-1-2021 · 3Cat, 10-3-2022 · Constitutional Court, STC 13/2019
Budgeted investment in Catalonia that the state didn’t carry out under Rajoy (2012–2017): €1,976 million. It delivered 71%.
Sources: Catalan government, note on state investment, December 2024 (PDF, table 1)
The Gürtel case: in 2018 the National Court convicted the members of the network and ordered the PP, as a party that had profited from it (partícipe a título lucrativo), to pay back the €245,492 it had gained. According to the ruling, the party had “una estructura financiera y contable paralela a la oficial existente al menos desde el año 1989” (“a financial and accounting structure parallel to the official one, in existence since at least 1989”). The Supreme Court upheld it in 2020. Our opinion: in plain English, they lined their pockets with the money of the citizens they claim to defend, and of those they don’t, too.
Sources: 3Cat, 14-10-2020 · Público, 14-10-2020
The slush fund: in 2021 the National Court found it proven that the party paid €1,072,000 off the books for the refurbishment of its Génova headquarters. Two years in prison for its treasurer Bárcenas, and the PP held secondarily liable under civil law.
Sources: General Council of the Judiciary, 28-10-2021 · RTVC, 28-10-2021
On 19 October 2026 the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, signed his “Contract with Spain”: “garantizar la enseñanza del castellano en toda España y de las lenguas cooficiales en sus respectivas comunidades autónomas” (“guarantee the teaching of Spanish throughout Spain, and of the co-official languages in their own regions”) and “erradicar cualquier adoctrinamiento” (“eradicate any indoctrination”) from classrooms. According to El Mundo, the plan for Catalan schools is 50% Spanish: the end of Catalan-medium schooling. In the Catalan Parliament, eleven days earlier, the PP had voted with Vox against strengthening it.
Sources: NacióDigital, 19-10-2026 · El Nacional, 19-10-2026 · Diari de Tarragona, 19-10-2026 · Demòcrata, 8-10-2026
Our opinion: if you want to vote PP, vote Vox. They wade through the same mud and the same sewers.
Vox
Its 2023 manifesto proposed banning pro-independence parties, abolishing the Mossos d’Esquadra (the Catalan police), shutting down TV3 (Catalan public television) and suspending regional self-government.
Sources: El Nacional, 7-7-2023
Against Catalan-medium schooling, always. Its 2024 manifesto promised to end it, scrap the decree on languages in schools and bring in Spanish-only schools, for “freedom of choice”. In the Catalan Parliament it has voted against Catalan being the only language of instruction (14 February 2025) and against strengthening Catalan-medium schooling (8 October 2026).
Sources: El Nacional, 7-5-2024 · El Liberal, 14-2-2025 · Demòcrata, 8-10-2026
The Court of Audit has fined it three times for irregular funding: €233,324 in 2024, €862,496 in April 2025 (cash donations and donations of unidentified origin, from 2018 to 2020) and €50,000 in July 2025 (donations earmarked for a specific cause, which the law forbids). These are administrative penalties, and Vox can appeal them.
Sources: elDiario.es, 30-4-2025 · elDiario.es, 30-7-2025
In 2026 it expelled two of its original leaders: Javier Ortega Smith (former secretary general, 6 March 2026) and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros (former spokesman in Congress, 1 July 2026). Macarena Olona was already out. That leaves Abascal.
Sources: elDiario.es, 6-3-2026 · El Nacional, 1-7-2026 · El Nacional, 23-12-2025
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