Saturday, June 13, 2015

The “outraged” take the big cities of Spain, Madrid and … – LaTercera (Record)

The former judge Manuela Carmena, 71 years, supported by the “outraged” and we, on Saturday took control of Madrid a few hours before the antidesahucios activist Ada Colau do the same in Barcelona .

Twenty-nine councilors, in principle twenty wishlist Madrid and now nine of the Socialist Party, supported its endowment in a secret ballot that ended 24 years of Conservative councils in the Spanish capital.

When the last ballot was read with your name, applause and cheers erupted in the hall of the consistory, a courtyard with four floors, Carmena full of supporters shouting “Yes, you can” The slogan of the demonstrations “indignant”.

Among them was overjoyed Pablo Iglesias , the leader of Podemos, which joined the list next to Madrid now platforms 15M movement and environmental training and alternative izquiera .

In the elections May 24 they left in second position a short distance from Esperanza Aguirre, historic leader of the Popular Party, but the Socialists PSOE supported it in the name of “change” in the capital hit by the crisis and punctuated by numerous corruption scandals.

“We are at the service of the citizens of Madrid, want to govern listening to call us by our first names, which tuteen us” , Carmena said in his speech, explaining the story of Julia, a 63 year old woman in a pink dress and he explained how he survived on a pension of 300 euros per month.

Aguirre, who won with 44,000 votes more, asked the mayors responsibility with Madrid and Spain, asking maintain the freedoms that sees threatened by the rise of the alternative left. “We are the first showcase of our nation,” said the conservative

The first Carmena measures will target poor children, who want to ensure two meals a day, and those at risk of being evicted.

The judge, in his youth communist activist and defender of human rights, inherited a city of three million inhabitants, tree-lined avenues and a charming historic center where the wounds remodeled but six years of sting crisis and an unemployment rate of 16%.

against social exclusion

A similar situation occurs in Barcelona in Ada Colau. This tourist Mediterranean city of 1.6 million inhabitants has almost a third of its population at risk of social exclusion.

His list, Common Barcelona, ​​won eleven o’clock councilors against ten of the hitherto Mayor Xavier Trias, nationalist conservative. Despite the victory, it will be more difficult to govern than to Carmena.

In a session with seven games and ten mayors of the absolute majority (21), Colau will have to seek agreements with at least three parties to implement its measures especially the most vulnerable classes.

From 17h00 will be vested with the votes of socialists and independence left in a ceremony that already begin to show signs of the new government mood placing representatives of organizations fighting poverty in posts of honor.

From different styles more aggressive and Carmena Colau quiet, address the same issues: curbing inequalities, fight corruption and manage more transparent and participatory way institutions.

Lists with similar postulates lead Valencia, a historic conservative stronghold plagued by corruption scandals, Sevilla and Zaragoza, the largest cities in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona.

In any of them rule the Popular Party leader Mariano Rajoy government, which lost 10 points in the elections of May 24 and will be superseded by leftist coalitions in several of the 14 regions renewed their parliaments.

The setback forced Rajoy to promise changes in government and the party in order to maintain their majority in legislative elections in November.

While we can and its allies, promoted to third national force will begin to show from their political institutions hoping to continue gaining ground.

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