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The historical moment sucks in Spain in that regard. It's been less than 10 years since the Podemos fiasco, the tendency in Spain right now is towards the strengthening of a two-party + regional hinge parties congress. People were hopeful of change for the better with Podemos, but a mixture of inaction by the party, incapability of governing due to the PSOE not allowing a coalition with Podemos in the first elections in which Podemos got big votes, and fabricated campaigns of funding from Venezuela and Iraq to Podemos by the national police, the right wing higher spheres in the internal affairs ministry and the private media, essentially burned Podemos from the 3rd biggest party of the country into insignificance, and the reaction of most people has been to become apolitical and cynical.
My only hope is that this wave of disregard for institutional politics becomes a breeding ground for activism and labour movement, but the big unions like CCOO and UGT are very much not collaborating in that direction and have been very much co-opted by the PSOE and by legalism instead of activism and labor movement. Unions in Spain have effectively been turned into a way to get a lawyer and information about your current rights, than entities for the struggle for worker's rights.
Nah, this moment only sucks for the central leftist parties. Both Bildu and the BNG are the strongest they have ever been.
Change in Spain will only come from a federalist coalition of leftist parties.
Change in Spain will not come from the institutions, whether federal or regional. BNGa and Bildu both have quite wide popular support in Galicia and Euskal Herria, and they're even arguably very grassroots and have a lot of basis in local democracy and activism. However, they're fundamentally not revolutionary parties, and there's only so much you can do through the institutions, especially as an EU member state.
I'm very hopeful for activism in regionalist parts of Spain, such as for example through GKS, but I honestly don't believe that anything beyond mutual-aid structures and some mild policy may come from institution-oriented parties.