Saturday, March 21, 2015

Spanish Andalusia pays the first electoral test – La Gaceta Tucumán

MADRID Andalusia, the most populated and higher unemployment in Spain region, choose today parliament and government in an election that will serve to measure the progress of the emerging forces can and Citizens as compared to bipartisanship of socialists and conservatives, hegemonic in Spanish politics for over three decades. It will be the first electoral test a key for the political future of Spain year where neoliberal anti can aspire to emulate the success in Greece Syriza, the left force Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras , which in January beat traditional groupings of left and right of that country

On May 24 municipal elections were held and in most of the autonomous regions of Spain.; in September there will be elections in Catalonia plebiscitary character, and year-end have the general, who will decide who the next president of the Spanish government instead.

The elections of southern Andalusia function as laboratory tests, whose results will check the drive for new parties that emerged and grew in the warmth of social discontent over the economic crisis and neoliberal policies that keep Spain with an unemployment rate of over 23%.

The electoral battle recently joined the center-right party Citizens, Catalan Albert Rivera , which opens in Andalusia and thrives in national surveys attracting votes of the discontented with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) President of the Spanish government, Mariano Rajoy .

Some 6.5 million Andalusians are called to vote on this iconic region south, ruled by the (PSOE) Socialist Party for 33 years and where the crisis raged, bringing unemployment to 34%, the highest in the country. For the PSOE these elections are crucial because they meet for the first time the ascending group we precisely in a territory whose vote has been historically essential for socialists to reach La Moncloa.

“We will open a while insurance changes throughout Spain. The socialist victory in Andalucia is the victory of the whole Spanish socialism “proclaimed Pedro Sánchez, party general secretary, at the close of the campaign of the PSOE candidate for president of Andalusia, Susana Díaz , whom polls show as the winner in the elections.

Díaz forward a strategy election that his opponents charge that is designed to mitigate the effect can serve at the polls and although she denies it and now it is less likely springboard to become the candidate Socialist in Chief Minister of Spain. The Andalusian leader came to office in September 2013 without going to the polls, after succeeding José Antonio Grin , of who was right and who had been rocked by a corruption scandal for which was recently accused.

But in late January unilaterally decided to break the coalition government with the United Left (IU) who had inherited, arguing that its members had been radicalized to converge with We, a party that did not stop to grow in the polls. In fact, Diaz is the only socialist leader who resisted in the European elections and extended their lead with PP.

According to the latest survey by the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), Diaz would win the election with 34.7% of the vote, would get 44 seats and 11 would be an absolute majority, so the oblige agree with another party to govern or should do in the minority. The PP, which leads to an unknown Juan Manuel Moreno as a candidate and was first force in previous elections-but could not govern thanks to an agreement between PSOE and IU, obtained 25.7% of the vote, and recede from 50-34 seats.

We can, with his young candidate Teresa Rodríguez occupy the third place, with 19.2% of the vote and between 21 and 22 deputies. Thus, the injured would be great UI, which would fall to 6.6% of the vote and would go from 12 to four or five seats, while Citizens get almost the same percentage, 6.4%, and achieved five deputies. (Telam)

For the PSOE, a victory in Andalucia would get a boost to face the municipal elections of May. It would also allow prove they can still fight for the government of Spain. Harassed, with United Left, by advancing Can, who capitalized popular indignation against economic and social crisis, socialists and their new leader, Pedro Sánchez, face a severe test.

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