If anyone among us had any doubts about the uselessness of the Spanish Senate, they will surely have been cleared up by the general election on November 20, 2011.

Practically none of the media organizations said anything about the results for the upper house during the night of the election, and it wasn’t until the next day that we could read in the newspapers how the seats were divvied up.

Prime Minister Jose Zapatero

This should come as no surprise to anyone because nobody cares about what happens to this legislative chamber, which, to all intents and purposes, is of absolutely no use for anything. Nobody seems concerned either by the fact that more than 900,000 blank votes were cast.

Over the course of the next four years we will continue to hear calls for the need to reform the Senate until the next elections come while everything remains the same except that Merkel has once again obliged us to amend the Constitution.

By Javier Polo Brazo