Thursday, June 23, 2016

The electoral rise of Unidos Podemos could shake up Spanish politics – Reuters Spain

By Sarah White

CORDOBA, Spain (Reuters) – dry filled landscape of olive trees of the quiet villages of the province of Córdoba can be the scene starting a political change that could spread throughout Europe.

Some of the inhabitants of the area as Lorenzo Molina, an unemployed 57-year bookseller, they hope to contribute to that change in the repetition of the Spanish elections on June 26, after a very fragmented results in the previous elections held in December.

The seats that the anti-austerity alliance led by newcomer we can get in provinces as disputed as Córdoba could tip the balance in their favor to finish leading the next government, perhaps the next migraine Brussels after the referendum on the British stay in the European Union.

the second position that States can wrest the PSOE according to polls become the alliance of extreme left in a serious contender to lead the formation of a coalition government and confirm the decline of the moderate left.

After the successful party Syriza radical left to displace the social democrat PASOK in Greece, the new change in Spain could boost anti-system movements style that is already in Italy or France, while social inequalities continue to fuel discontent population.

for Molina, a convinced voter anticapitalist Izquierda Unida, now part of the new left alliance, the country is a momentous moment that could end decades of bipartisan representation if the so-called ‘Sorpasso’ occurs to the socialists.

” It’s time to aerate things, “says Molina on a warm afternoon in a park in the city of Cordoba, where groups of families and neighbors waving flags with the hammer and sickle while listening to a rally.

“The socialists have you been in charge of our institutions for many years,” he added, while sounding chants of “can do” in a crowd of several hundred people. More …

LikeTweet

No comments:

Post a Comment