Madrid.- The Spanish Government and the Popular Party (PP, center-right), Mariano Rajoy, on Monday blamed the crisis wear economic clear defeat of his party in the Andalusian regional elections on Sunday, but do not see extrapolated to Spain.
The Socialists, who rule in Andalusia (8.3 million) for more than three decades, will remain in power after winning 47 of the 109 seats in the regional parliament, although down four percentage points due to the decrease of PP has been even greater: it has lost fourteen points and seventeen members (left 33) Efe reported.
The executive of the different parties today examined these regional elections, whose interest increases because this year will be held in Spain ratings to renew thirteen regions and 8,000 municipalities (in May) and legislative (You previews to November).
Overlooking these appointments with polls Rajoy did not seem to feel concern and, at the direction of his party, admitted wear PP to govern in times of crisis, but noted that the results of Andalusia are not applicable nationwide.
More specifically, Rajoy showed before his fellow convinced that the PP will be the most voted in municipal and regional elections in May, party sources said.
The popular leader recalled that his training was voted in five of the eight five provincial capitals , although overall lost half a million votes over regional elections four years ago.
“We continue to work glued to the street and defending our values,” Rajoy wrote on his twitter account after the meeting of the leadership of PP.
The PP candidate in this election was Juan Manuel Moreno, a personal commitment Rajoy, who was little previously known but he was Secretary of State for Social Services and Equality.
The winner of the election was the Socialist Susana Díaz (40 years) who chairs the regional government since September 2013, though it came from the resignation of his predecessor and now has overcome the criticism of some that was president without winning at the polls.
Diaz has significant support among historic leaders of the PSOE, which are seen as a possible support for future jump to the national policy.
Since July 2014 the Socialist secretary general is Pedro Sanchez (43 years), who today told reporters, avoided comment on whether he fears for his leadership.
So, to review the socialist victory in Andalucia, Sanchez said that “Susana Díaz victory is the victory of the whole Spanish socialism.”
For the PSOE leader’s victory Diaz is “firm and resolute step that insurance change that Spain needs and craves.”
Yesterday’s elections have led to the emergence of two young parties, we (left) and Citizens (centrist liberals), which are presented as regenerators of democracy against the corruption of PP and PSOE and management of the economic crisis.
We can, with fifteen seats, appears in different surveys disputing the PSOE’s role opener left nationwide.
However, today one of the national leaders, Carolina Bescansa acknowledged that although the results of the elections Andalusian have opened an irreversible change, the move by Can has not been “sufficiently long” to lead that change, suggesting a point of dissatisfaction.
The fourth force, Citizens, which emerged in Catalonia a few years ago, has now left the region and threatens to take votes the PP in view of the upcoming local and parliamentary elections.
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