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After the elections last Sunday took the PP absolute majority, negotiations began. A rapprochement between the Socialists hold and can to seize power from conservatives in six communities.

From Barcelona

Change. In Spain we talk about something else. From one end of the state, in the streets, in schools, in bars resonate the same names. New names. Carmena Colau and are the most repeated, but there are many others who came with the storm of last Sunday’s elections. The polls put in the center of the political stage to different actors, actors that promise have come to represent another work. What will happen now with the old players? They were removed from scene to sit in the audience or continue pushing for its privileged place in the headlights? What’s new? Will they distributed the papers and make a good deal? Will he leave the audience happy, disappointed, or also take the stage?

After the municipal and regional elections held on May 24 in Spain the curtain on a new political landscape opens, whose structure did nothing to start. The Popular Party (PP) lost all absolute majorities for ten years and emerging formations had practically they equated on votes number. The short distance between conservatives and groups as we -in autonomías-, the Socialist Party (PSOE) and citizens’ -in municipalities- give key government left most of the Spanish territory. But for that they must ally. And after the euphoria of the victory on Sunday, he has to start to cool and sit down and negotiate. In cities, parties have until June 13 to reach an agreement -day investiture of future mayors and regions still have a little more margin-still to be determined date each community, although the process is expected to be closed in early July.

Can we be able to negotiate with “caste” to oust the PP? Do arrimarán Socialists finally to Pablo Iglesias after despise from his brilliant breakthrough in the European elections? The whirlwind of meetings and statements the leaders of the two parties are taking place from the morning after the elections seem to indicate so. Everything points to a rapprochement between PSOE and can to drive the barons of Mariano Rajoy of the communities that are likely to do so if they join: Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha, Aragon, Asturias, Valencia and the Balearic Islands; and in the cities of Madrid and Zaragoza, Madrid and Zaragoza Now Common, composed of candidates we could govern with the support of the Socialists.

The general secretary of the PSOE, Pedro Sanchez, left this week clear strategy post-election arrangements must undergo a closeness can. This Saturday the Federal Committee of the party met to define the five “priority areas” that socialist candidates will have to take into account when agreeing, in principle, would not pose any problem for the formation of Pablo Iglesias accept them, and matching “red lines” that they also made public this week.

The minimum requirements outlined Sanchez before the Federal Committee, the body responsible for determining the PSOE alliances, focus on to the “austericidas” cuts, as named Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, former secretary general of the party. The “shield of public services” is one of the criteria set by Sanchez, and the incorporation of economic measures at the service of job creation and the “just” catch-the much talked about in this election campaign “reducing inequality . “- and, of course, a strict plan for” democratic regeneration and transparency “

Pablo Iglesias said something very similar to their candidates in their meeting on Friday to articulate the possible agreements. “Zero tolerance to corruption and citizen rescue measures against cuts” were the limits set by the leader of Podemos to seek agreements with other parties. Iglesias publicly assumed that there was some change in approach from the socialist ranks and explained to the media that this new attitude itself expected to reach agreements with the PSOE number one. “Before Pedro Sanchez did not call me and now I” said the secretary general of lilac training in his first press conference after elections

With the advance of leftist coalition that could oust Mariano Rajoy shakes. While in his first public appearance after the election, the PP leader said that was not going to make any change in either the government or his party, the next day I was clarifying its strong inertia to make way for a stand (something) more open to dialogue and criticism. It is not for less. Rain reproaches from the bosom of his party and the rout of regional leaders of the PP came to him just hours after he spoke. Juan Vicente Herrera, acting president of Castilla and Leon, was the first to fire on Rajoy, recommending “look in the mirror” to answer himself whether to resubmit as popular candidate in upcoming national elections.

The debacle of the party in some enclaves like Valencia and Madrid in power for over twenty years gives way to a new set of Spanish politics and the two main cities of the state are the clearest sign of change.

In Madrid, Manuela Carmena is about to take over the mayor if his candidacy Now Madrid -confluencia party among them is we can- pact with the Socialists and other left formations members in the council. The former judge which won twenty councilors, compared to twenty the PP already received the explicit support of the Socialist candidate, Antonio Carmona, who would bring the mayors that are missing, so he said to the media feel and as “the new Mayor of Madrid “.

In Barcelona, ​​the winner of the elections and future intendenta, Ada Colau, meanwhile said Saturday in an interview with the Newspaper of Catalonia, if Manuela Carmena also get the Mayor Madrid both cities “consolidate an axis nly not social, but democratic revolution” that can be expected “in the state, in southern Europe and beyond.”