thu 17 feb 2015, 11:34
Spain agrees old guard is not completely gone
MADRID –
Spain choose Sunday, according to polls, a parliament that for the first time since times are no longer dominated by the socialist PSOE or the conservative people’s Party (PP) of the current prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. New party that the old guard responsible for the dramatic economic crisis and the deep-rooted culture of nepotism, a lot of the 350 seats in the Spanish Second Room win.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
Photo: AFP
And after Sunday, Spain to learn how a coalition government is, because no one expected an absolute majority, as the ruling party PP now has.
The new parties would also benefit from the lack of charisma of the little talkative Rajoy, who is very unpopular cuts made. He has his land during the dramatic banking and sovereign debt crisis and during a period of huge unemployment and economic contraction. To make matters worse, suffered the reputation of institutions such as the monarchy and the judiciary as major damage by a series of corruption scandals. Recently voted a majority in the Catalan regioparlement for separation from Spain.
The liberal reformist party Ciudadanos (Citizens) of the 36-year-old Albert Rivera and the left-radical Podemos (We can) of the 37-year-old Pablo Iglesias, there are also good for in the polls. They would together have about 40 percent of the votes in the wait can drag.
But polls writing the sixty-year old Rajoy will not print. The economy is growing this year with 3 percent and the unemployment rate is falling, albeit slowly. A large number of voters would be in the recovery of the economy, the hand of Rajoy. Also the problems with separatists in Catalonia drives voters into the arms of the experienced man, who already so many crises has survived: Rajoy. The PP would, despite all the misery the biggest continue with somewhere between a quarter and a third of the votes.
The PSOE would not yarn spinning with the crises and weak from the ballot, to come to the front. Many young opponents of the PP have more confidence in Ciudadanos and Podemos in the socialists, who from 2004 until the end of 2011 ruled.