The legislative elections Spain December 20 resulted in a highly fragmented parliament that, in spite of months of negotiations failed enough to invest an executive agreement, forcing the call for new elections this Sunday, half a year later.
polls show the conservative Popular Party (PP) will win the elections, followed by the alliance Unidos Podemos, the Socialist Party (PSOE) and fellow newcomer Citizens. However, it is not expected that any party approaches the absolute majority of 176 seats.
In this regard, the candidate for reelection Mariano Rajoy – Popular party – as favorites but we -Paul Iglesias- led coalition could rise to power if he can support the socialist PSOE Pedro Sánchez -.
According to the Spanish Constitution, the Prime Minister is elected by the 350 members of Congress. For which a parliamentary majority is required.
Although the supports are divided, all parties now promise that there will be a third election. To understand the moment that lives Spain, it is necessary to know who is who in these legislative elections.
► Mariano Rajoy
represents the Popular Party ( PP ) of conservative ideology. His speech appeals to the continuity of current policies, marked by strong austerity set by Europe.
“We need all hands and all votes. Disqualifications and tension is we let that are thinking (the other parties), “he said the candidate at a public event at the beginning of the campaign.
the candidate and incumbent president has harshly criticized his contenders during the campaign. He said that “it is not good for Spain A Government ‘to the Greek’, which govern who generated the biggest crisis for Spain or that he does who has never managed anything,” referring to We can, PSOE and Citizens.
► Peter Sanchez
the Spanish Socialist Workers Party ( PSOE ) , located in the center left, defends a model of socialist politics and proclaims itself the representative of the Spanish social democracy.
at the beginning of his campaign, Sanchez he said it was not necessary “speak or surveys, or armchairs” after the polls be located his party as the third political force after PP and United we can and called to discuss “proposals and solutions”.
The socialist candidate is economist and worked as a consultant in the European Parliament and the UN.
the PSOE invest Sanchez tried but failed to get enough votes to not reach an agreement with Podemos. After two months, the King dissolved Congress and called back to elections.
► Paul Churches
from Podemos party, composed mainly of academics, he advocates a speech in which the defense of social justice and opposition to inequality with socialist policies prevail and New Keynesian , which considers that the self the market is due to several factors and not just the free market.
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he joined the 14 years of Communist Youth. In January 2014 we founded that in March constituted as a party. In May is elected MEP
Your campaign began optimistically to the favorable poll numbers and its alliance with the United Left (IU). “We will reach out and be ready to talk with everyone to head a government of change,” he told the newspaper El Mundo.
His alliance with IU has been a decision that analysts have described as wise as would give the push to become the president, leaving aside the PP , its main competitor.
►Albert Rivera
Belong Citizen, a formation center-defending political liberal and a speech in which political regeneration, the unit of Spain and defending the Constitution are protagonists.
Rivera focuses its campaign to motivate the abstention of the Spaniards to vote. “Those who do not know whether to vote to think where we came from and where we want to go. The policy if you do not do, they do it for you,” he told a rally.
He also has had epithets for their opponents. A Rajoy criticized for its “inaction” and churches by “selling smoke”
Source:. The World / The Country
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