We can and Citizens threaten Spanish bipartisanship – El Universal (Venezuela)

Madrid.- In 2015, an election year in Spain, the fate of a political system decide bipartisanship, which seems to have its days numbered. In just nine months are going to hold six electoral processes, starting with the Andalusian elections this Sunday March 22 and ending with the General, November or December to renew a Parliament which, in turn, will the Prime Minister Spanish.

But this time is not about routine events in a country that is governed democracy for 38 years. The economic crisis, which erupted in 2008, has negatively impacted a political model whose base of support was bipartisanship, represented by the two forces that had been alternating in power: the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and the Party Popular (PP). Thus, the visible manifestation wear the traditional parties is expressed in a brand new box capable of generating electoral changes and so deep draft and some leaders talk about changes in the Constitution of 1978 to constituent.

The new electoral landscape

In this direction the new electoral landscape includes the emergence of two political organizations, citizens and can, which disrupted the current power scheme so far, the extent that the latter ranks first in the polls (as is the case Metroscopia) with 22.5%, even if you lose five points from the previous measurement. Meanwhile the PSOE gets 20% and the Popular Party 18.6%, while Citizens experiencing a rise and achieves 18.4% support.

When it comes to finding answers to this amendment to the electoral political framework, with four forces in contention, but everyone out of the majority, it is clear that the decline of the traditional parties due to widespread corruption, both agree about like others, to high unemployment, which in the case of young exceeds 50% and the effects of program adjustments applied in recent years, despite the partial recovery proclaimed by President Mariano Government Rajoy, expressed in macroeconomic figures, but not in an improved quality of life of the Spaniards, at least until now.

forced Loyalty can

The problem is that the scandals extend beyond bipartisanship and some can leaders who proclaim themselves as fighters against the outrages and copies fraud “caste” ruler, have received millions in subsidies from the Venezuelan government. Such is the case of political scientist Juan Carlos Wallet, number three of the party and its counsel to President Hugo Chavez, who received 425,000 euros paid by the preparation of a report on the possible creation of a monetary unit in Latin America now.

But the shadow of the Venezuelan government, the product of a long relationship with leaders can be projected onto a motion accusing ballast allies now more than uncomfortable to allegations of money laundering through Some accounts owned Bank intervened in Madrid. However, the degree of commitment and loyalty became evident when the bench can, in the European Parliament refused to vote the resolution addressed to the government Maduro for alleged political persecution of the opposition.

Now the leadership of trafficking can disengage from the Government of Maduro and purse, one of the theorists with whom Chavez sought to give substance called Socialism of the XXI century, said that “Venezuela has no proposals that can be applied in Spain. ” That after just four months ago, the top leader of the party, Pablo Iglesias, manifest that he felt “some things envy Chavez of Venezuela.” Iglesias was shown also in favor of a constituent, Spain output of Treaty Organization (NATO) and a referendum to decide whether to Spanish monarchy. But it is evident that the strategy and the nature of the proposals, similar to that of Alexis Tsipras in Greece, have shifted toward the center to stop the fall and earn a middle class with statements like “we are not left, we assume the centrality of country. “

The Third Way Citizens

But if we have managed to take voters to the PSOE with a radicalism that preaches anti- Troika (International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission), an increase of wages, reduced working hours and a series of nationalizations, Citizens has managed to snatch the Popular Party of its customers from the Catalan regional grouping which then assumed national character and grounded in absentia but within the system, under the slogan to which calls its leader, Albert Rivera, who rescues the slogan of the Third Way, under a model of speech “Social liberalism”

In other words:. a proposed center to undertake a pact against corruption that has managed to restore faith to the disillusioned and desire to participate to prudent outraged

The curious thing about all this is that neither can nor Citizens probably will win the elections in Andalusia because Susana Díaz, current president of the Board, candidate for reelection and PSOE leader, who called for early elections, is the favorite to prevail 36%, which would slow the progress of the emerging parties, especially can, and give the Socialists an oxygen requiring urgent to return to be the alternative to the Popular Party government.

But this is the first of a series of elections in which the only certainty is that the winners will be forced to establish alliances and this, in the fragmented Spain today, will not be easy, to the point that since several leaders have been warned not to fall into “unnatural pacts”.