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Riklet
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So Spain/Venezuela beef building at the moment. Anyone seen anything about this? Thoughts on the significance and likely outcomes?
Was also wondering to what extent Podemos is still linked to the Venezuelan regime, in aiming to emulate their political projects and so on. Has there been a break with Maduro of sorts? Or still going strong, whether or not money has changed hands for some time...
Was also wondering to what extent Podemos is still linked to the Venezuelan regime, in aiming to emulate their political projects and so on. Has there been a break with Maduro of sorts? Or still going strong, whether or not money has changed hands for some time...
Nice little side story on the kind of high-to-mid level corruption and how much of a mess it causes, and how many people must have walked off with a lot of dough.
http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/04/20/inenglish/1429529343_396066.html
http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/04/20/inenglish/1429529343_396066.html
Riklet
procrastinación
can't really rant against the rich and political corruption when you've got 400,000 turkeys from the venezuelan government sitting undeclared and untaxed in your bank account.
then again, he's one of the main key ones who ARE Podemos. so it's still pretty surprising he's gone tbh. I'd imagine he will be reshuffled or given behind the scenes stuff until it all dies down, he's too experienced for them to get rid of completely, isn't he.
Podemos seems to have stalled a bit anyway, confronted with the vicious and aggressive media campaign by the generally right-wing Spanish press as well as the failure of Syriza to get anywhere in Greece. Not that getting 15% is anywhere near bad one year in as a party, but I don't see them really taking on the PSOE in the forthcoming elections. and the PP still has quite a lot of support in some places, incredibly. Maybe the main thing is the supposed gradual economic improvement... ho ho ho. and the tackling of corruption they have undertaken. HO HO HO!
then again, he's one of the main key ones who ARE Podemos. so it's still pretty surprising he's gone tbh. I'd imagine he will be reshuffled or given behind the scenes stuff until it all dies down, he's too experienced for them to get rid of completely, isn't he.
Podemos seems to have stalled a bit anyway, confronted with the vicious and aggressive media campaign by the generally right-wing Spanish press as well as the failure of Syriza to get anywhere in Greece. Not that getting 15% is anywhere near bad one year in as a party, but I don't see them really taking on the PSOE in the forthcoming elections. and the PP still has quite a lot of support in some places, incredibly. Maybe the main thing is the supposed gradual economic improvement... ho ho ho. and the tackling of corruption they have undertaken. HO HO HO!
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Ciudadanos is now getting as much attention as Podemos was and that few % of PP votes that Podemos got hold of is now gone forever. Monedero must have made an impact too. I find it infuriating that they managed to make such a giant fuck up. An anti-corruption party with tonnes of cash sitting around in one of their leader's accounts. Podemos won't disappear but I can't see them moving much from the plateau they find themselves on now.
Monedero was a liability. Why did he even think it would be a good idea to be a politician? Ego? I'd like to be one too but when they dig up my last seven wives under the new patio extension - clutching the details of my swiss bank account and wholesale heroin business - whatever party I was in would be fucked.
Having said this there is still a long way to go before the election, local elections are coming up too v soon. Plenty more corruption scandals to come. The country's coal miners are going down as we speak and they aren't going to go down meekly. Minds will be focused again. Whatever happens Spain are going to have a chunky libertarian left (ish ish as defined by me etc) party in parliament this time next year.
The UK left can only dream of this kind of failure.
Having said this there is still a long way to go before the election, local elections are coming up too v soon. Plenty more corruption scandals to come. The country's coal miners are going down as we speak and they aren't going to go down meekly. Minds will be focused again. Whatever happens Spain are going to have a chunky libertarian left (ish ish as defined by me etc) party in parliament this time next year.
The UK left can only dream of this kind of failure.
JHE
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Probably, but PP will lose their majority on the council. EA will only become mayor if she can get the support of some other party, Ciudadanos presumably.
The two polls I've seen recently tell rather different stories about the level of support that PP has in Madrid (city).
On Friday El Mundo published this (from Sigma Dos):
But in today's El País there's this (from Metroscopia):
It doesn't mention the %age of the vote on that graphic but Metroscopia has PP at just under 30%, six and a half percentage points lower than in the Sigma Dos poll. It has Ahora Madrid on almost 28%, much higher than in Sigma Dos.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Who are ahora madrid- local only party? where on the spectrum would you place them? wrt l-r obvs
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
They are a left coalition including Podemos who have got together to try and retake Madrid after 23 years of right-wing control in the city. They would be to the left of the UK Labour Party and to the right of Proletarian Democracy.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
cheers, I could have googled but my spanish is nonexistent
JHE
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A little over a week ago I went to a hustings organised by a neighbourhood association and the speaker from Ciudadanos (who IIRC is the second on his party's list for the council elections) was repeatedly pressed by people in the audience to rule out supporting PP and making Aguirre mayor. He wouldn't.
I guess they would try to extract a price for their support and that price would probably include anti-corruption measures.
Riklet
procrastinación
So i can't vote on Sunday. Some bullshit letter arrived, thought it was my postal vote but apparentky not.
Seems I haven't joined the right register, or havent been empadronado long enough. I empadroned here 3 years ago but have never been to la oficina del census electoral or wherever.
Any ideas folks?
Seems I haven't joined the right register, or havent been empadronado long enough. I empadroned here 3 years ago but have never been to la oficina del census electoral or wherever.
Any ideas folks?
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
In Madrid each neighbourhood has an office for empadron etc and they will stick your name on the list no problem if you take your NIE and passport. Things vary from region to region though so I don't know if it's as smooth in Andalucía.
JHE
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I thought that in order to vote in Madrid as a non-Spanish EU citizen in the forthcoming municipal elections, you had to go to your local Junta de Distrito (where you did the padron) by the end of December last year to express your wish to vote in the election.
(If I am wrong about that, maybe I will be able to vote. I thought I had lost the opportunity by not getting my act together late last year.)
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
A quien ibas a votar, fav? 
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
A quien ibas a votar, fav?
It has to be Ahora Madrid to get as close as possible to PP vote. I hope the left can just squeeze a majority of seats, although Aguirre still gets to be THATCH.
Podemos really look like they're tanking a bit nationally post-Monedero/Ciudadanos. 17% in voting intention for general election I think now.
Just spotted this. Worth a read.
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
Yeah, I think a lot of the sheen has come off. Still, I think the general disruption to "bipartidismo" is going to shake things up in quite unpredictable ways a fair bit over the years to come...
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Marvellously entertaining read for Spanish speakers. Writer believes Aguirre is going to lose. I haven't bought cava yet.
http://blogs.publico.es/eltableroglobal/esperanza-aguirre-va-a-perder-las-elecciones-pasalo/1159
http://blogs.publico.es/eltableroglobal/esperanza-aguirre-va-a-perder-las-elecciones-pasalo/1159
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