We can and Citizens Sunday leadership dispute … – Telam

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Pablo Iglesias, leader of Podemos, as Albert Rivera, Citizens, know that the local and regional or regional elections of May 24 are a trial that will test their strategies and allow them to position themselves ahead of the race end of this year by La Moncloa.

That’s why both, although not eligible, decided to take the weight of the campaign.

“The tool is to vote can vote. The hope is purple and we assume the challenge, because we do we dare, “claimed Iglesias before an enthusiastic audience yesterday in Zaragoza.

” I remind Mariano Rajoy is going to close the legislature with the same standing ( unemployed) that Zapatero “Rivera said for his part almost simultaneously at an election rally in Alicante, comparing the Spanish Prime Minister and leader of the PP and its Socialist predecessor.

Emboldened by the success that the latest polls predict, Rivera even challenged to a debate to “four-way” to Rajoy, the Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez, and churches.

But the leader of Podemos was the only one accepted and in the straight end of the campaign, recalled via Twitter that he is also willing to confront face to face with his rivals: “Rajoy behind plasma, does not face Sanchez Rivera and gives long (turns). #QueremosDebate Campaign “wrote.

Since its emergence in the European elections of May 2004, the neoliberal force can, seeking to emulate the Greek Syriza that brought to power the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, He had monopolized the discourse of “change” compared to traditional hegemonic parties, PP and PSOE, discredited by its managing economic crises and corruption scandals in recent years.

However, the party born within the Occupy movement it was recently emerged a strong competitor: Citizens

The formation of Rivera, born in Catalonia and anti-separatist initiative alternative to PP, decided to take a leap into national politics also looking. the vote of those who are sick and reject a form of politics that puts the interests of the financial elites to the detriment of the rights of citizens.

Seven months after the general elections, a survey by the prestigious Sociological Research Centre (CIS) gives We can place third force behind the PP (25.6%) and the PSOE (24.3%), with 16.5% of the vote, seven points less (23.9 %) three months ago, while shooting Citizens from 3.1% to 13.8% and is secured in the fourth.

Churches and Rivera committed to be “alternative” to the PP in the polls; and support virtually the same strategy in search of the vote of the social majority that is in the political center of a decaying system.

None of us wants to be the label in the traditional left axis -right, though they themselves try to discredit the opponent using that resource.

Iglesias says that we aspire to occupy the “empty space” left social democracy, while Rivera arrogates the same objective.

Just before the start of the campaign, when a survey placed first Citizen ahead of Podemos, Iglesias did not hesitate to charge against his new adversary stating that “Albert Rivera is a revamped version of Mariano Rajoy, with an economic program practically identical “.

Rivera hit back saying that Spain has to choose” if we are Venezuela and Denmark “and” we prefer to compare ourselves with Denmark “We identifying the most left positions Iglesias tries to get open.

We ran for elections with a sweetened program that left some of its more advanced, such as universal income proposals and appealing to the enthusiasm of ordinary people for promoting “political regeneration “Spain needs.

Meanwhile, Rivera says to be” sensible change “and had to clarify that he is” not right “, although originally was member of the PP, which your program is liberal and recently had to expel from their lists candidates who in the past were presented with xenophobic platform games for Catalunya.

Faced with the threat of these emerging forces, Rajoy and the PP the PSOE will try to resist Sanchez maintaining the highest possible power in a scenario that is adverse to them and that is in transition.

“The old dies hard and the new takes at birth. The most superficial part of this process is the idea that there is a turnover of faces and ages, but Citizens can and reflect political, economic and institutional crisis of the Spanish system, and the expression of a policy change time ” , Telam said political scientist Joan Subirats, co-author with Fernando Vallespín the book “Spain / Reset: Tools for a change of system.”

“We are apparently facing a change of elites and fragmentation of the political system, but there is more to be gradually go see “insists Subirats, referring to the abandonment of the current model of coordination between the state and economic interests and its replacement by a different one in which the citizen has a more prominent role.