Socialists won in Andalusia and we stayed as third … – LaCapital.com.ar

The conservative Popular Party collapsed from 50 to 33 seats and a more fragmented regional parliament is confirmed.

(PSOE) Socialist Party won yesterday in the regional elections in Andalucía, where anti neoliberal can force premiered making a valuable third pressing ahead of an intense election year that will culminate with the election of the next president of the government of Spain, in December. Current regional president, socialist Susana Díaz, took the win with 35.45 percent of the vote and 47 deputies, but fell short of an absolute majority of 55 seats, counted 99 percent of the vote.

Diaz, 40 years and five months pregnant, announced in January’s elections scheduled for 2016 in the region. In the midst of an unprecedented crisis in the PSOE nationally victory confirms his leadership, two years after taking the reins of the regional government following the resignation of his predecessor, José Antonio Griñán. “It is a historical and indisputable victory that fills me with satisfaction and responsibility,” said today from Sevilla, sheltered by the shouts of “president, president”. The Socialists resist well in its historical stronghold, since not lose seats compared to 2012, but Diaz probably will have a minority government because of its refusal to negotiate with can and not give mathematics to return to their former partners of Izquierda Unida (IU), which finished last.

As predicted surveys, the right-wing Popular Party (PP) of the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, that led to Juan Manuel Moreno as a candidate, took second place with 26.74 percent of the vote and 33 deputies, 17 fewer than in 2012, and the worst election result in 25 years).

However, the great change confirms the emergence of can, that the hand of their candidate, Teresa Rodriguez, not only enters the regional parliament but does it like third force, after yielding 14.84 percent support and 15 deputies,

Off Target. The force led nationally by political scientist Pablo Iglesias met moderately with the expectations generated for months by the polls, because it was a little below the 19 percent forecast and far from the goal that raised their leaders, who trusted to overcome them. Rodriguez was proud of the achievements and said that with its 15 MPs “are the stones” in the shoe “who want to follow trimmed life and social rights” of Andalusia. With this result, “Andalusia and Spain have changed,” proclaimed the candidate can. “It is a still photo but a film frame change,” he said amid shouts of “Yes we can!” Part of his supporters gathered in the theater tavora Sevilla, located in an industrial estate. “We want the bench can be the ordinary people, the people, which carry the common sense to Parliament. That there be cuts in education and health while rescuing the banks,” he said.

The other emerging party that would test and debuted in Andalusia, Citizens, also won representation with 9.27 percent of the votes and 9 deputies. Unlike can, Citizens exceeds polls that gave him a tie with the high prejudiced, United Left (IU), which falls to 12-5 seats with 6.89 percent of the vote.

electoral test. Andalucía elections were presented as a test to measure the thrust of the new forces can and Citizens as compared to traditional games PSOE and PP. The result has been a success for the first two. “The bipartisanship is dead,” said Albert Rivera, leader of Citizens, a force that was born in Catalonia and has now decided to make the leap to fight in Spain. “You have to manage change. The difference between Citizens and other changes is that we do not consider enemy to anyone, PP, or PSOE, nor can,” he said.

In For the two traditional parties that hegemonized Spanish politics for over three decades, emerging from the elections differently. The Socialists just 150,000 votes-lose-some support so that manage to resist quite well in his barn of votes and they govern for 33 years. Instead, the PP collapses respect of the 50 deputies who won in the last elections in 2012, which he won, but could not rule due to a government pact between PSOE and IU.

Despite the weather, citizen participation exceeded the inflow three points regarding the elections of 2012. Accounted almost one hundred percent of the ballots, voted one 63.94 percent of the 6.5 million Andalusians the electoral roll.

Sarkozy stopped the advance of the extreme right in France

The conservative UMP party Former President Nicolas Sarkozy and his allies won yesterday the first round of departmental elections in France, leaving victory to the extreme right National Front led by Marie Le Pen. The result is an unusual setback for Le Pen, who had hopes that his anti-European and anti-immigration party, could emerge ahead of the vote in the first round, reinforcing its goal of being a serious candidate in the presidential election of 2017.

According to partial official results were consistent with polls exit polls, the UMP and its allies won overall for around 30 percent of the national vote, ahead of 26 percent of Le Pen’s National Front. Pre-election polls showed right and the far right head to head.

As planned, the Socialist Party President Francois Hollande was third with 20 percent of the preferences, which expresses its unpopularity after failing to fulfill promises to reduce unemployment, currently around 10 percent. Sarkozy immediately ruled out any alliance between UMP and FN candidates in the second round, which will take place on Sunday and which will decide who controls the “departments” of France, one of the levels of the complex system of government Local country.

Sarkozy left his political retirement last year and wants to secure a place in the primaries that his party held next year for the 2017 presidential election.

While yesterday’s results mean that you can no longer claim that the National Front is the most popular party in France, Le Pen said the same result was a victory for an almost totally absent party departments at present and a slap to the Prime Minister Hollande, Manuel Valls. “Manuel Valls should now hear the message of voters and have the decency to submit his resignation to the president,” he told supporters

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