In elections in Spain, an uncertain scenario for all – lanacion.com (Argentina)

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MADRID (EFE) .- The campaign for municipal and regional elections of May 24 in Spain came to Ecuador, at the prospect of a tight results that would force covenants to ensure good governance.

Surveys show that neither of the two main parties, PP (center right) and PSOE (Socialists) obtain sufficient majority, with the emergence of two new formations in national politics, Podemos (left) and Citizens (liberal centrist).

The new political map would require agreements, but all parties claim that the only agreement they want is to citizens.

Given the uncertain outcome of the past 30 years, both in the municipalities of the main Spanish cities and in the regions, national party leaders are turning in supporting their candidates.

The Spanish government and the Popular Party (PP), Mariano Rajoy exhibits good macroeconomic data and urges people to give confidence to his party as collateral for recovery after the crisis in Spain since 2008.

Rajoy began the campaign with an institutional tone, but with the days he transformed his speech to fit the candidates using their rallies with affiliates. For his part, the leader of the Socialists (PSOE), Pedro Sanchez, insists that his party is the only alternative to PP, ignoring citizens already can.

Sanchez, who leads the PSOE since July 2014, overturned in the campaign to strengthen its leadership and sends the message that voting for the PSOE is most useful to defeat the PP, which until now holds power in most major Spanish cities and in 12 out of the 13 regions where we vote on the 24th.

We are meeting their expectations, according to party sources, and seeks to extend the message that May 24 will be “the day of change.”

This training, which is considered an alternative to traditional party system is not presented to the elections with their own stands, but several nearby platforms supporting citizens 15M movement, which emerged from the protests that began on 15 May 2011 and we can “heir” is declared.

Their leader, Pablo Iglesias in recent days, raised the tone of his criticism of the PP and Rajoy, who described as “cowardly” by not wanting to debate him on television. The president of Citizens, Albert Rivera, reaches this point of the race with a big media and dump mainly in Madrid and Catalonia role, northeast region of Spain where this training was born in 2006.

Ribera starred in one of the most important debates of the first week of campaigning for his proposal, then nuanced, that democratic regeneration can only starring in people born after the adoption of the 1978 Constitution.

idea was criticized by the traditional political forces of the left, which showed their history of struggle for democracy.

The elections are the prelude to the general elections scheduled for November and the covenants they happen to be Regional governments can give a hint of what will happen nationally. .