JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, Spain
AFP
In the heart of the tourist Andalusia, Cristian Garcia spends the day sitting on a park bench with his buddies . Unemployed, will vote on Sunday we left party in the Spanish legislation, hoping deposited in a change. A 25 km away, while you are on your shopping selling sweets and drinks on the beach with who barely manages to keep her two young sons, his wife and his mother, Rafael Rivera says continue to rely on the Socialists.
Andalusia (south), with populations still rub against 40% unemployment, is a key battleground in the fight waged by the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and can by vote of the disadvantaged, that could define the leader of the Spanish left future.
Opinion polls in Sunday’s elections, the PSOE could be for the first time in recent history as a third force, we passed by a coalition of US anti-austerity party Podemos and the small United Left party. First the conservative Popular Party (PP) would be imposed.
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change “a change is needed,” he says Cristian Garcia told AFP, flanked by two of his friends on a bench in the Plaza Arenal in the center of Jerez de la Frontera. None of the three young men in shorts, shirt and sneakers unemployed.
In the city known for its sherry, horse breeding and great figures of flamenco, “no work. And if achieved, work is precarious and earns little, “says Garcia, 19. Also it gives their vote can Matías Yunes, a novice architect since he earned his bachelor’s degree three years ago has not gotten more than temporary jobs, and out of Jerez, the third Spanish city with the highest unemployment in 2015 (39.4%), almost twice the national average.
“we all want to be a fundamental change, a necessary change in the system,” says Yunes, 28, describing the drama of his friends in Jerez. Many left the city to seek out employment; others still live with their parents, a situation “that discourages you mind.”
Across the street Fidelity socialist Jose Antonio Fernandez said that at 72 remains true to the Socialists, who has supported in all elections, a fact that does not surprise.
for decades, Andalusia has been undisputed bastion of PSOE. “I know I can be wrong and have stolen, but all do, blame not you can take about anything else,” he says the retired, which is protected from strong midday sun with a hat and dark glasses. Precisely
, Andalusia was the scene of a major corruption scandal that hit the PSOE, for alleged embezzlement of millions of euros in public aid to employees and companies affected by social plans.
Sanlucar de Barrameda, 25 km from Jerez, Rafael Rivera also shows his sympathy for the PSOE, while taking care of your shopping goodies wagered on the beach a few centimeters from the placid sea, under a blue sky without a cloud. “There has always been to defend the Spanish workers,” says Rivera, 36, to claim progress under governments of the PSOE by the welfare state.
Some disenchanted Socialists passed conservative ranks. “I am the PSOE in fact, but I will vote for the PP, because I think it is going to get money and you will get work,” says Alejandro Alonso, who works with his family in a stall flowers.
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