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Monday, June 13, 2016

It's Not Just The British Want Out Of The EU - Eurosceptic PODEMOS in Spain Are Surging Ahead Of Election




With the EU Bureaucrats and Europe's political elites (not to mention the world domination freaks in Washington) in a blind panic over the surge of support for LEAVE in the Brexit campaing, pro EUronazi people in the UK are screeching "Racism", "Xenophobia" and trying to pretend that Britain is the only EU member state dissatisfied with the way the European Union has been run. This is in spite of surges in support across Europe for anti EU parties such as Front National in France, The Sweden Democrats, Alternatif fur Deutschland, the Danish People's Party and the Freedom Party in The Netherlands. Last month we saw victory stolen from the anti EU candidate in the Austraian Presidential Election and last week anti EU, pro - Democracy candidate Virginia Raggi established a comfortable lead in Rome's Mayoral Election.

And then there's this:

Following the inconclusive election outcome in Spain st December, the crisis torn country is preparing to go to the polls again. Already in a panic over the way the In / Out referendum in Britain looks to be heading, the smooth face bureaucrats and crooked deal makers who run the EU will have been further dismayed by a sudden surge in the popularity of Spain’s Eurosceptic Podemos (United We Can) party.

Podemos (Image source)

Center right Popular Party (PP) leader and acting prime minister, due to the refusal of Podemos to enter a coalition with any pro EU party, Mariano Rajoy was expected to gain seats following the failed election in December 2015. However polls shows PP is losing seats to left wing anti-EU party Podemos (the labels left and right have little meaning now) as the graphic below shows, with 22% of respondent declaring undecided; (don't worry if you don't speak Spanish, words are not needed.)

Image source: El Pais

The Financial Times (London) comments Spain’s Once-Mighty Socialists Set to be Eclipsed by Far-Left.
The Spanish left is heading for a wrenching realignment at this month’s repeat general election, with a closely watched new poll suggesting that the centre-left Socialist party will be eclipsed by the far-left Unidos Podemos bloc.

With the official election campaign set to kick off at midnight on Thursday, Unidos Podemos was forecast to win 25.6 per cent of the vote and 88-92 seats in the 350-strong parliament.

The latest poll, by the respected state-funded CIS research institute, gave the once-mighty Socialists just 21.2 per cent and 78-80 seats. If confirmed on June 26, the day of the election, that shift would offer fresh evidence of the deepening crisis facing Europe’s embattled social democrats.

Last month, the anti-austerity Podemos party and the United Left, which includes Spain’s former Communist party, decided to set aside their rivalry and run on a joint list dubbed Unidos Podemos (United We Can). For the Socialists, the traditional standard-bearer of the left, the fallout from that deal appears to be highly damaging.

According to the CIS survey, the Socialists and Unidos Podemos could control as many as 172 seats in parliament, just four shy of an absolute majority. Meanwhile, the PP and the centrist, pro-business Ciudadanos party are predicted to win at most 160 seats between them.
But party leaders and analysts alike caution that the Socialists are deeply reluctant to throw in their lot with Unidos Podemos, especially if that alliance were to be led by Podemos chief Pablo Iglesias.

“I don’t see the Socialists supporting Iglesias as prime minister,” said José Fernández-Albertos, a political scientist at the CSIC research centre. “The more likely outcome is that they will abstain and let Rajoy govern [in minority] but will go into the opposition themselves. They will tell their supporters: We cannot support the PP but we also have to be responsible.”
As the polls stand now, mathematically, it appears likely the outcome of the election will once more be inconclusive. Adding to Spain' economic problems a coalition will be difficult because none of the other parties like PP or its corrupt leader, Mariano Rajoy.

A government of national unity, a three-way coalition between Unidos Podemos, PSOE, and Ciudadanos, previously proposed by King Felipe seems the least likely outcome as it was rejected earlier this year by all parties except PP, whose leader Rajov is no fan of democracy and rather than accept that he is the problem and stand down will apparently do anything to hold on to power.

The undecideds will determine the outcome and they are currently breaking towards Unidos Podemos, to give the party its full name which literally translates as “United We Can”, a nice campaign slogan. If Unidos Podemos plus PSOE can achieve an absolute majority, it seems likely that after some cracking together of heads, the socialist parties will unite, if only for the sake of returning Spain to a functioning democracy.



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Thursday, March 03, 2016

Spain Faces Constitutional Crisis: Podemos Spurns Coalition Deal With Pro - EU Parties



Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias (screenshot)

Spain faces a constitutional crisis as the socialist leader Pedro Sanchez failed to convince the leftist, anti - establishment, anti - EU party Podemos to join his socialist party in a coalition government.

The Podemos leader, pony-tailed academic Pablo Iglesias (who sounds more like a Mexican or Colobian drug baron than a Spanish politician, which might be a good thing when it somes to facing down the smooth faced, back - stabbing EU bureaucrats, has already announced his movement will not accept Sanchez's demand. Podemos is now expected to vote against Sanchez if he seeks a parliamentary vote of confidence on his prime-ministerial bid.

 The only party that could join the Socialist Party (PSOE) in backing a Sanchez cabinet is the small center-right group Ciudadanos. This leaves Sanchez with only 90 votes from PSOE plus 40 from Ciudadanos — a total of 130 whereas the majority in Spain's parliament is of 176 votes.
The impasse is opening a deep rift between the country's left-wing parties, which has only grown deeper after Podemos' scathing criticism of Sanchez during a high-octane parliamentary debate last Wednesday. Dialogue now seems a very remote possibility.
Sanchez will have to once again seek a majority vote on his bid to form a cabinet. He would only need a simple majority — that is: more people voting for him than against him — to clinch it. Still, even that prospective seems very unlikely. 

Were Sanchez to fail, negotiations will resume for up to two months. After that, unless the parties reach a deal, new elections will be called. 

Podemos's line is that the new government should result from an alliance among all the leftist forces in parliament. Iglesias has spoken of a "government of progress" that would gather under the same umbrella Podemos, the PSOE, United Left and Compromís. The anti-establishment party's main concern with Sanchez's current proposal is his deal with Ciudadanos.

Sanchez believes that a left-wing coalition would not be able to deliver a government really alternative to the current interim cabinet, led by conservative Mariano Rajoy of the Popular Party. Still, Sanchez' bid to cut deals beyond of the left's boundaries has not panned out so far. 

 Pedro Sanchez, the leader of the Socialists, which came second in the elections with 90 seats, previously said he wanted to form a leftwing government with Podemos on the condition that Podemos abandon its support for an independence referendum in Catalonia and its opposition to austerity measures imposed by Brussels and surrender of national sovereignty to EU bureaucrats.

Podemos wants Catalonia to remain a part of Spain but believes it should reject independence in a popular referendum, similar to the method Scotland used last year. "The only way to defend the unity of our country is through democratic processes," Iglesias said, as cited by The Guardian (article linked above).








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