Monday, May 25, 2015

‘Outraged’ of Spain gave a serious warning to the right – swissinfo.ch

The Spanish sent a serious warning to the traditional political, opening the doors of Barcelona and Madrid ‘outraged’, in local elections, where conservatives may lose a number of regions and the formation of radical left can confirm your irruption.

Six months after the general elections, the Spaniards have shown their weariness by the crisis, cuts and corruption scandals that has not erased the nascent economic recovery right exhibits as his great achievement.

In Barcelona, ​​led by the activist antidesahucios Ada Colau, Barcelona in common, with 11 councilors list exceeded the 10 outgoing conservative nationalist mayor Xavier Trias.

Ten councilors of the majority, Colau now begins a ’round of negotiations in a transparent manner “with leftist forces to achieve a stable support.

The search for pacts will be repeated in Madrid, where the former Justice Manuela Carmena with Now Madrid, where we joined, was the second most voted 20 councilors behind the 21 of the Popular Party (PP) and the Socialists could rule whether the support with nine councilors. Citizens, the other major emerging force center-right, was fourth with seven councilors

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“It’s a hope for change is a breath of fresh air “, claimed Monday, Antonio Sama, a union of 53, protesting against the Madrid city council of non-payment of salaries of the Royal Factory of Spanish Tapestries.

” You can convince many people who is afraid of the changes that you can do things differently, “said Isabel Fernandez Lopez, another protester of 51 years.

At night, supporters of Carmona, 71, celebrated their victory in the Spanish capital, heading right for 23 years and in 2011 witnessed the birth of the movement of the ‘outraged’.

“At last this city will cease to be sad,” said Nacho Lopez, 38.

But after touching the sky, these ‘outraged’ will come down to the land of the covenants to be followed to these results.

In Barcelona, a coalition of the opposition could even divert Colau, while in Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre conservative candidate seems to assume that Carmena will ally with the Socialists, but it is still the most voted and promises a tough battle.

The general secretary of the PSOE, Pedro Sanchez, whose formation obtained 25% of votes nationwide, said that the Spanish have shown that they want to turn left opening his party to “articulate progressive governments in the whole community . regions and municipalities for safe change “

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In the whole country, right received a corrective hard at risk of losing traditional strongholds such as Valencia or islands Baleares.

“We will lose the government of regions that are very important to us and not only regions but also in provincial capitals,” he told Cadena Ser radio the presidential candidate of the Region Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, representing the moderate wing of the PP.

The Spanish “want to change behavior, we have more closeness,” he said.

The PP, who ran 13 of the 17 Spanish regions, it lost 2.5 million votes, although it is still the first force in number of votes (27%).

The formation of the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, could losing power in six regions: Extremadura (west), where the Socialist Party is in the lead, and five other regions if there are different alliances: Aragon (north), Cantabria (north), Castilla La Mancha (center), Balearic Islands (East) and finally, their stronghold of Valencia (East), beset by corruption scandals, which could be lost if the socialist ally and citizen leftist platform, Compromis.

Rajoy was scheduled to meet Monday with its executive committee to analyze the results of the elections, which promise a hard task for the general end of the year.

We, created in January 2014 by a group of political science professors, bursts as the third political force in a dozen regions, allowing you to impose some of their ideas.

“We outstretched hand, but whoever understood us has to take to do various policies those that have done so far, “he said on Monday its leader, Pablo Iglesias.

The other new national training Citizens was presented as” the third political force at the municipal level “and also showed willing to pacts which has created a “committee of pacts”.

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