Left snatches big cities to PP Rajoy – Terra Peru

Most of the big Spanish cities will be governed by socialists or we close political platform, the party that broke a little more than a year in the Spanish political scene mayors.

Madrid

In the capital, the candidate of the grouping of leftist Now Madrid, the former Justice Manuela Carmena, 71, was proclaimed mayor with the support of the Socialist Party ( PSOE), ending 24 years of government of the Popular Party (PP) Mariano Rajoy.

“Now we hope that the policy is different. We, honest and serving the citizens public servants, simple,” said the candidate of Madrid after being invested now. At the gates of the Town Hall of Madrid, opposite the central fountain of Cibeles, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the appointment of the new mayor.

Barcelona

In Barcelona, ​​Spain’s second city and capital of Catalonia, the antidesahucios activist Ada Colau took the baton this afternoon. The leader of the liberal group in Comú Barcelona won the municipal elections last May 24 against the nationalist party CIU, who ruled until now. “We know that we have taken a very important, very ambitious step and we are here to assume collectively,” the new mayor. In the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, ​​the peared citizens shouting “Yes we can”.

Valencia

Another traditional strongholds conservative, Valencia (east), passed into the hands of the leftist Compromís, who agreed with the PSOE and Valencia in Comú (Podemos ) to name its candidate mayor, Joan Ribó, and unseat the conservative mayor who held the mayor for more than two decades, Rita Barbera (PP).

Zaragoza, La Coruna, Cadiz, Seville

The wave of change spread to other provincial capitals as Zaragoza (northeast), fifth largest city in Spain by population; Cadiz (south), where the PP ruled for two decades, and La Coruna in Galicia (north). In all, they went to the front of City Hall leaders can near popular applications.

The Socialists, who supported the allied groupings can in key cities such as Madrid and Barcelona to hold the mayor passed nine provincial capitals to do at 16. Another is Seville (south) the fourth most populous country and capital of the region of Andalusia, where they recovered the council ruled in recent years by the PP with the support of left formations city. The socialist Juan Espadas was proclaimed mayor today, ousting Juan Ignacio Zoido (PP).

We can celebrate, PP accuses

The secretary general of the party considered “brother” of the Greek Syriza, Pablo Iglesias, said today that “the enthusiasm and hope” take “on wings We can win the next general election the PP “provided at the end of the year in Spain.

From today PP accused the PSOE and its national leader, Pedro Sanchez, “give up being an alternative government” and “deliver local and national governments and the radical left-wing parties “. Among the ten most populated cities in Spain, the PP retained Malaga (south) and Murcia (southeast). The formation of Mariano Rajoy is expected to have 17 mayors of the 50 Spanish cities, compared to the 43 it won in the 2011 elections

RML (dpa, efe)