Considered a first test to these election year end, the elections in Andalusia , the most populated region, gave victory to the (PSOE) Socialist Party with 35.4% of votes and 47 deputies of the 109 of the regional Parliament , when they were counted 99.95% of votes.
“It is a historical and indisputable victory” , celebrated Andalusian reelected president, Susana Diaz, who called open “a new time for dialogue” with the fragmentation of the regional parliament.
We can, betting for victory appears as third force with 14.8% of the vote and 15 deputies, behind the Spanish President Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government, which won 26.8% of votes and 33 deputies People’s Party.
His training, which in the elections of 2012 achieved a 40% of the votes, it’s definitely the big aggrieved by the findings in this region, governed since 1982 by the Socialists. Its candidate, Juan Manuel Moreno, acknowledged that it was not the expected result.
“The people have punished the crisis management” , said one Spanish veteran politician Gaspar Llamazares, the ecolocomunista coalition Izquierda Unida (IU), swept by the emergence of can.
Allied Greek Syriza and related to the Latin American left, we were congratulated begun to crack the domain of socialists and conservatives the last 33 years. “The political map in Andalusia and Spain has changed,” said the Andalusian candidate MEP Teresa Rodríguez 33 years.
“Se hace camino al andar. Thanks Andalusia, thanks Teresa Rodríguez walkers, thanks for taking the first step. We continue “, tweeted leader can, Pablo Iglesias, quoting the poet Antonio Machado.
The result is lower than predicted in the polls and his number two, Iñigo Errejón, attributed it to the “most rural and older” population in the region, which “tends to retain more traditional balances”.
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The year of “change”
The decline of the major parties, however, is felt: 80% of the vote in 2012 passed to 62% in these elections , the first in a frantic electoral cycle thirteen municipal and regional communities in May elections in Catalonia in September and legislative at the end of the year.
Nearly 6.5 million Andalusians, from 8.4 million having this vast region of southern Spain, the birthplace of flamenco, were the first to be able to choose between the classic choices and new forces as can or Citizens.
The center-right party, born in Catalonia to deal with nationalism in the region and transformed in a project of Spanish political regeneration, won 9 deputies (9.3% of the vote) and can be key to enabling form a government socialists, who remained eight seats in the majority.
“Today almost 400,000 Andalusians have said they want a change but want a sensible change”, held its national leader, Albert Rivera, in Seville.
Six years of hard crisis and numerous scandals corruption, made of “change” the buzzword of the Andalusian campaign . Even the PSOE, after thirty years of government in the region, promised “safe change” while the PP, based on the nascent economic recovery, advocated a “peaceful change”.
Region stricken
After years of real estate frenzy, which filled coastal resorts of southern easy job and gave many young, the bursting of the bubble construction 2008 plunged the region . Agriculture, which employs half a million laborers, did not offset the fall.
More than 1.3 million people are unemployed, 34.2% of the active population , a record among European regions. Among young people, many of them uneducated, the rate approaches 60%.
A corruption scandal for allegedly embezzling funds to promote vocational training delved further outrage.
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