The Spanish illiberal Podemos party, which lost ground in the polls, tries to approach the center with a first electoral program for victims of the crisis in which waives his more radical proposals considered analysts Wednesday
Dressed in jeans and shirtsleeves, general secretary Pablo Iglesias was presented on Tuesday night in the amphitheater of the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. battery measures 215 includes a “rescue plan” not financially and those who fear the Europeans, but “citizen”.
Two weeks before the municipal and regional elections of May 24, the plan seeks to mitigate the consequences more painful austerity policy conducted by the conservative Popular Party (PP), in power since late 2011. cessation of evictions, suppression of private debt, universal health care, investment in education
We can also offer a “new production model”, based on a sustainable and inclusive economy, reindustrialization, research and development and measures on transparency and fighting corruption.
In fiscal matters, provides for an increase taxes on incomes above 50 000 euros ($ 56,000), an estate tax when it exceeds 400 000 euros and tax harmonization among the 17 regions of Spain. In addition, some outsourced services, such as laundry from hospitals, will be recovered by the public administration.
“Just want”
country needs “healthy public accounts but deficit reduction is subject to the reduction of unemployment,” summed Nacho Alvarez, head of Economy of a match in which DNA is printed denouncing austerity policies.
“Just you want, just do it,” he said, defending the viability of a policy based on stimulating demand. No embago, according to some analysts, the party, born in January 2014, seems to have moderated their positions, especially in renouncing its promise of a universal income for all citizens.
“It is a clear shift Social . They have left all their unviable measures, “notes Antonio Roldan Monès, specializing in Southern Europe within the Eurasia Group, a think tank based in London Economist.
According to this expert, a universal income would cost Spain close to 90 billion euros a year (102 billion dollars), 10% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Spain, which resumed growth in 2014, maintains a very high deficit of 5.69% of GDP.
The program can “seems to the French Socialist Party of François Mitterrand in the years 1980, as he did Felipe González (who ruled Spain 1982 to 1996), but now much more open economies, “says this expert.
Fourth according to recent polls, behind the PP, the Socialists and the centrist Citizens, we presented its program after its first great internal crisis, which resulted in the departure address on 30 April, the exasesor the late President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Juan Carlos Monedero, number three and ideologist of the party.
The crisis focused precisely on the ideological background of your program and wallet, which contributed to its development, advocated a “closest to the street” line. Asked by AFP about the figures behind these guidelines, a spokeswoman for we said that is a framework program without calculation of time.
“Hide behind the scenes such vital issues as the debt of communities autonomous or how to finance such an ambitious plan, “the journalist Marisa Recuero launched from the pages of center- World .
Javier Ayuso, in El País , also denounced the lack of financial details, talking about a “brainstorming, with 215 proposals of all kinds and some contradictions”, designed to seduce ‘outraged’, the base of the movement.
The program also comes at a time when Syriza, the Greek party can ally, fails to launch its major campaign promises, including the renegotiation of debt.
“The worst thing you can do a country is losing its ability to make decisions (…) look at what is happening in Greece, “did not lose the opportunity to highlight on Wednesday the Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos.
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