The Spanish anti-liberal party can gathered on Saturday to more than 100,000 people in Madrid in a mass march “for change”, turned into a giant rally with few concrete proposals in a year of several electoral events.
“Pablo Iglesias and his party can harvested yesterday an undoubted success in rally in the Puerta del Sol,” said Sunday the center-right newspaper El Mundo.
Some 100,000 people, according to police and 300,000 according to the organizers, occupied the center of Madrid to listen to Iglesias, secretary general of training, and its top leaders launch more emotional messages to politicians, contrasting the “caste” and privileged -in reference to political, banking and big entrepreneurs-citizens.
“The wind of change starts blowing in Europe,” Iglesias said, referring to the victory of his ally training in Greece, Syriza.
“They lack courageous dreamers who dare to defend the underdog. We need more Quijotes” said Iglesias, while his number two, Iñigo Errejón, said that “in our country is broken pact of coexistence, and it was not us. They, the privileged, who have placed above the law. “
The party, heir to the Occupy movement which in 2011 became the Sun epicenter of the protests against the economic crisis, austerity and corruption, and warned that the march was not protesting anything in particular, but by the “change”.
“It’s a gamble” , pointed to the AFP, José Ignacio Torreblanca, expert ‘think-tank’ European Council on Foreign Relations, referring to a mobilization that had also raised some reluctance within we for its lack of specific claims.
“There were speeches of political content but targeted the heart of a devoted audience emotional messages,” said Sunday the Catalan daily El Periodico.
The similarities between the Occupy movement and can is sunset highlighted by the professor of sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Ignacio Urquizu, to highlight the lack of proposals.
At the time, reproached outraged lack of initiatives, although “it is true that it was unjust criticism, since it was only a citizen protest movement. But can aspire to govern our country and shows the same lack “Urquizu writes in a column published by El Pais.
Born just a year ago, led the formation Iglesias has experienced a meteoric rise in the polls in voting intentions presenting it as first or second political force, in a year in which Spain will live several electoral events.
In March there will be regional elections in Andalusia (south), which local and regional will continue in May, ending with autonomous Catalonia in September and general, in principle, in March, so much of the Spanish press presents progress can as the beginning of election campaign.
we have able to capitalize on public discontent toward traditional politicians representing the ruling Popular Party (PP, right) and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE).
A feeling enhanced by the crisis in Spain, with an unemployment rate of almost 24% and has seen hundreds of thousands of families have lost their homes because they can not pay their home loans, while corruption cases multiplied.
But the training has not done concrete proposals so far, except generic proposals to combat inequalities for public health, corruption or restructuring of the Spanish public debt in the third quarter of last year was 96.8% of GDP.
However, Torreblanca, imprecision can program is not a weakness because “voters no political agendas than 400 pages are read”.
Torreblanca recalls that the Socialist Party came to power in 1982 with an absolute majority with the slogan “For the change” and believes that a strong point can is presented as a young political force against the old parties with few ideas
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