Madrid and Barcelona premiere mayors left – Televisa News

MADRID. Spain, Jun. 13, 2015.- Madrid and Barcelona culminated one of the major political upheavals of Spain in recent years, with the investiture of mayors far left strongly opposed to ruling party.

The new radical leaders announced that they will reduce their salaries, suspended the housing evictions and deleted privileges to the rich and famous. These historic changes in the political headquarters of both cities take place three weeks after voters fed up with austerity measures and corruption scandals, punish the two biggest traditional parties of Spain in Recent municipal elections.

In Madrid, the retired judge Manuela Carmena, 71 , was sworn in as mayor to the acclaim and jubilation of leftist sympathizers who packed the streets near the City Hall. The crowd shouted in chorus Yes we can! after to end the conservative domain Popular Party (PP), that holds the government of the country, held for 24 years in the Spanish capital.

We want to rule listening to people call us by name, said Carmena at the end of voting in which he was named mayor by a majority of the new councilors Madrid.

Other things Carmena pledged to the benefit of the wealthy locals who enjoy the exclusive use of the Country Club belonging to the city and open it available to people. Before the vote, he said he was creating a new kind of politics that does not fit the convention.

In Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau activist 41 years fighting against evictions , he was subsequently sworn in as the first woman to assume the top job in the city. Carmena and Colau led their candidacies for mayor as leaders left coalition supported by the new Party can , made last year and which is characterized by pro- workers and against the political mainstream in the country.

We can is headed by Professor Pablo Iglesias , which uses ponytail and is a great supporter of Syriza party far-left governing Greece. Churches smiled from an internal ball of the City of Madrid as he watched the Carmena investiture , then raised his arm with a clenched while celebrating the victory with the crowd in the streets fist. Churches said that the assumption of the left in Madrid should be seen as the goal of his party at the national level.

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