MADRID Shouting “ISI can!”, Some 300,000 people from all over Spain participated this afternoon in the “March of Change” organized by the anti-liberal party that we, encouraged by the Syriza victory in Greece, promises to transform the country.
“The wind of change starts blowing in Europe”, launched Pablo Iglesias, leader of the new party, in a tone of political rally before the crowd that pressed in the famous Puerta del Sol, where in May 2011 was born the movement of ‘outraged’ that he himself was part
“Many want to link the fate of can the fate of the Greek government. we support our brothers, but nobody did their homework for them and nobody will do the duties of the Spaniards. A Spanish citizens touches us now be protagonists of our history, “said the charismatic Professor of Political Science, 36, a long ponytail.
With flags of Greece and republican Spain, the crowd had marched in the morning waving flags of SYRIZA and this little Spanish party, born just twelve months ago and already leads polls the beginning of a year with several electoral events.
“This is historic, you have to live,” said Blanca excited Salazar, assistant geriatrics 53, unemployed for three ago, who traveled by car from Bilbao, northern, with her husband, an employee at a printing “which comes thousand euros a month.”
“Finally I think it will generate the much awaited change, for so long,” he said. Meanwhile, the Spanish police estimated at 100,000 attendees square.
After six years of crisis, Spain lived in 2014 an economic recovery that led GDP to grow by 1.4%, but the cost has been high: deep cuts in public spending, especially in health, education and social assistance reforms to lower the employment and dismissal and the second highest rate of child poverty in the EU after Romania
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With an unemployment rate of almost 24%, the country has 1.79 million households where nobody works and hundreds of thousands of families lost their homes to unable to cope with real estate loans, while Spanish banks received a European rescue of 41,000 million euros.
At the same time the country has multiplied corruption scandals, involving leftist politicians and rights, bankers, trade unionists, celebrities and even a daughter of King Juan Carlos, who in June abdicated in favor of his son Philip VI at the lowest point of his popularity.
Reviews Rajoy
“I do not accept that black Spain who want to paint some and who want to paint because thanks to it they think they will replace those who are ruling and have faced the most severe crisis in decades” , replied the head of the Conservative government, Mariano Rajoy, from Barcelona. “Ino going to get!”, He added.
This great event takes place less than a week after victory in Greece Syriza, whose leaders have regularly campaigned alongside those of Can, training surprised at the European elections May getting 1.2 million votes and five deputies.
Raised on two European countries that have suffered the crisis, both reject the austerity slogans of the troika of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) The European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Commission.
“We are in a European political earthquake,” said the French leftist politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who traveled to Madrid to participate in the march. Spain will hold municipal and regional elections in May, and late legislative year nationwide.
In this context, the party of Churches is heavily criticized by the government Popular Party (PP, right) and the Party Socialist (PSOE, main opposition), who accuse him of populism and endanger the fragile economic recovery promising “the moon and even the sun.”
“As you can see there are many people who agrees with a change. Enough of being robbed, that corrupt it are taking everything and can do anything, “was indignant Dori Sanchez, a teacher of 23 years, unemployed, who traveled with friends to Madrid from Alicante, in the east.
“Politics has always been apart of the social and this must change,” said Joseph, a 24 year old computer prefers not to give his last name. “People looked forward and was expecting something like Can, young people who enter wanting to break everything I had,” he added.
Protest at the Obelisk
The new Spanish political party can place an event today at the Obelisk in simultaneous march that took place in the city of Madrid, which joined Plaza Cibeles with Puerta del Sol, under the slogan “March of Change”.
“Today Spanish, Argentine and Latin American of all nationalities, supporters can have concentrated opposite the Obelisk in solidarity with the Spanish people and to put an end to the crisis that endured for more than six years, “read the organizers from the stage, in a ceremony that began just after 10 am.
In this context, representatives can Argentina said that” in the port capital itself we could experience a Madrid full of illusion, a Madrid claiming that the institutions are in the hands of citizens, a mother who is confident in the abilities of the citizens of their own country to conduct an alternative draft to breed nation. “
“If the capital of Spain today met hundreds of thousands of people, Buenos Aires has brought together several hundred supporters who have shown their support and solidarity to the democratic revolution that currently shakes the political caste Spanish they put on the table issues such as the need for horizontal, politicized citizenship and participatory democracy, “stressed from the political space through a press release.
In the act of Buenos Aires were projected speeches different leaders can, like Juan Carlos Wallet, Teresa Rodríguez and Miguel Urban, and also got a greeting, specially recorded for the event in Argentina, Political Secretary can, Iñigo Errejón.
Agencies EFE, AFP and Telam .
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