It’s election time in Spain, and all over the country voters are participating in regional as well as municipal elections that have a good chance of shaking up the two main political parties.

Seats in 13 of the 17 regional parliaments are up for grabs as well as positions on local councils. According to the BBC, opinion polls regarding current public attitudes toward the Spanish government do not bode well for the ruling party and its main opposition.

According to the AFP, analysts are saying that two new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, could in fact do away with the two-party system that has been the status quo for the past four decades. The vote on Sunday is being seen as a forecast for the national elections, which will take place later this year.

Demonstrating that it is democracy itself that matters, the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy urged people to vote for "whoever they see fit."

The recent economic crisis in Spain, coupled with a series of corruption scandals, have severely hurt the reputations of both the conservative Popular Party (of which Rajoy is a member) and the leading opposition party, the Socialists.

It is predicted that after today’s elections the Popular Party could lose its majority in nearly all of the 10 regions that it controls. Aside form this, the elections are likely to make space for newer parties like the center to right-leaning Ciudadanos and the radical anti-austerity Podemos party.

The Podemos party, whose name translated to the hopeful slogan "We can," is becoming a noticeable force in Spanish politics.

As quoted in The Guardian, Pablo Iglesias, the 36-year-old leader of the radical party, talked about having to use capitalism to achieve their more Marxist ideals, saying, “We accept that the euro is inescapable.”

“The change we represent is, in some way, about recovering a consensus that 20 years ago would even have included some parts of Christian democracy,” says Iglesias.