Manuela Carmena a former Spanish judge supported by a public platform composed in part by citizens and associations from the movement of the “indignant” that four years ago shook the Spanish policy will be the next mayor of Madrid, after an alliance with the Socialist Party that ends 24 years of power of the right in the capital of Spain .
“As a result have discussions with the PSOE for the investiture of Manuela Carmena “announced on Twitter the Madrid platform now. Its 20 councilors, nine socialist allies, have absolute majority in the municipal council of 57 members, allowing his inauguration.
Carmena, a retired judge of 71 years, communist activist against dictator Francisco Franco in his student years, he came second in the municipal elections of May 24, behind the conservative candidate Esperanza Aguirre, a heavyweight of Spanish politics, former minister and former leader of the region.
The list of this former magistrate unknown until recently the general public, composed partly of persons arising from the “indignant” movement, born in May 2011 in Madrid against austerity and corruption, won 31.8% of the vote, against 35.5% and 21 councilors to Aguirre.
The center-right Citizens succeeded in turn seven council and not enough to counter the alliance between Madrid and socialists now. Carmena will thus become, in a vote on Saturday after the constitution of the municipal council, the first candidate emerged from the “outraged” that governs a Spanish city, predictably followed within hours by antidesahucios activist Ada Colau in Barcelona.
A unique case in Europe
The list now Madrid is “a rather unique case in Europe”, to concern a capital considered political scientist Fernando Mendez, researcher at the Center for Research on Direct Democracy University of Geneva.
It is unique because both the composition of the list as the program were developed within citizens’ assemblies held in Madrid from June 2014 before being validated by a vote of more than fifteen thousand people over the Internet.
The future municipal councilors who will lead this city with 16% unemployment and strong social contrasts, come from partnerships neighborhood, social groups and leftist parties as we, Equo (ecologist left) and United Left (Ecolo-communist).
Created by “outraged” that decided to get involved in politics, the list will take over unequal city that lives to the rhythm of expulsions of indebted families from their homes and “tide”, mass demonstrations of teachers but also of health workers against drastic cuts in their sectors.
Carmena announced his first decisions will be for people who every day are at risk of losing their home, finding solutions to stop the expulsions or alternative housing.
Three years after the first camps against austerity and corruption, a group of professors of political science involved in the “outraged” had given birth in January 2014, the Podemos party, an ally of Syriza, the party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
In the municipal elections and regional May 24, we stood in third place in most of the thirteen autonomous regions of 17 make up the country, which elected their regional parliaments. They are also these “outraged” who are at the origin of the citizen platform Now Madrid, who wanted to bring direct democracy to the mayor of the capital.
Although Carmena declared publicly “independent” we have strongly promoted the candidacy of the former judge, much appreciated by its general secretary Pablo Iglesias. Diaphanous eyes, wide smile and quiet voice, Carmena has promised. “We will not govern only for people who have opted for change” but also for those who do not believe in it
Aguirre tried to convince Socialists that would support against Carmena claiming that it wanted to use Madrid as a springboard “to break the Western democratic system.”
“We will seduce those who do not believe in change for you to realize how wonderful it can be to change, change for the better, go to a city with more decency, more balanced, fairer, more innovative, efficient (…) and cordial “, he will be promised new mayor. It will nevertheless obliged to terms with the government of the region, even in the hands of the right.
Invested Andalusian president
On the other hand, Socialist leader Susana Diaz was inaugurated today as president of the regional government of Andalusia almost three months after winning the elections, due to the lengthy negotiations to reach an agreement with the Spanish pop formations.
The socialist PSOE won clearly the elections held on March 22 in the most populated region of Spain, but needed the support of one of the two new political parties, we leftists or centrists Citizens, to form a government.
At first, before the municipal elections of May 24 in Spain, Susana Diaz failed in three votes to which he was subjected in the Andalusian regional parliament to be inaugurated as president, as none of the other parties the He supported.
Finally, after hard weeks of negotiations, which planned the threat of repeating the elections for lack of agreement, PSOE and Citizen they agreed the reappointment of Susana Diaz with the affirmative vote of 56 deputies ( 47 and 9 respectively). In exchange for this support, the centrist party, which promotes democratic regeneration in the country, imposed a series of measures to the new socialist government, which rules without alternation this region for over 30 years.
Between These include holding primary elections to select party candidates, the term limits to two terms and the resignation of those accused of corruption, including two former regional presidents punctuated by a huge embezzlement scandal, and José Manuel Chaves Antonio Griñán.
Accustomed to large majorities of both major parties, PSOE and the Popular Party (conservative in the government), the emergence of Citizens we can and brought in Spanish politics in a scenario of further fragmentation where agreements between formations are needed.
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