Podemos Wins Barcelona City Hall, Needs Help in Madrid
Source: BloombergBusiness
A group backed by Podemos, the anti-austerity party that burst onto Spain’s political scene a year ago, seized control of Barcelona City Hall and its allies may be able to add Madrid.
As Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s People’s Party suffered its worst result in a municipal election for 24 years, Barcelona en Comu won 25 percent of the vote with almost all ballots counted, pushing Catalan President Artur Mas’s CiU into second place with 23 percent.
“‘We’ve shown that it’s possible another way of doing politics,” the group’s leader, Ada Colau, said in a televised press conference. “We’ve won Barcelona for the people.”
Ahora Madrid trailed the PP by 32 percent to 34 percent with 91 percent of the votes counted. The result in Madrid gives the group, an alliance in which Podemos is the biggest force, 20 seats out of 57 in the city’s assembly, one less than the PP. Either party will need the support of the nine representatives from the PP’s historic rivals, the Socialists, to form a majority.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-24/podemos-may-win-madrid-barcelona-city-halls-exit-polls
Pablo Iglesias, secretary general of the Podemos party.
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The sad truth is that Spain's PP effectively uses the country's generalized hostility for Moroccans and Gypsies much as the GOP uses the "browning of America" to ride waves of ethnic hatred to power. In Spain's case, these are the ethnic groups which PP voters are quick to blame for all the country's problems ("Austerity? Nah. Massive tax evasion? It's their right. The Bankia collapse? Phooey - it's them hairy Gitanos and Sudacas, don'tcha know!"
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¡Joder! Divide and conquer. Works every time.
