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Monday, November 21, 2011

 

Spain election results.

After 7 years of Zapatero's socialist crap and green economic destruction of Spain,  the conservatives have been brought back to hopefully "fix" their problems.  It is a parallel template for what has been done to this country even before the current fascist greenies screwing things up even worse.  End progressivism now! Socialism must be removed it don't work.

This is from the Guardian in the UK:

The conservative opposition People's party (PP) of Mariano Rajoy have won a clear majority in Spain's general election.

With over 90% of the votes from the election counted, the centre-right PP won 186 seats compared to 154 in the last legislature, while the Socialists plummeted from 169 to 110, their worst performance ever.

Although the 56-year-old is an apostle of deficit control and liberalisation, he has been deliberately vague about his plans so as not to frighten off voters.

With yields on Spanish sovereign debt soaring to new highs at the end of last week, he takes over a country in crisis.

He will come under immediate pressure from markets to reveal exactly how he intends both to kickstart growth and cut spending. Some experts say he must find €18bn (£15.4bn) through cuts or tax hikes. Rajoy pleaded last week for markets to give him "more than half an hour", but has also said that his party already has clear plans.

PP spokeswoman Ana Mato confirmed that the party's own polling also gave them an clear majority. "The PP has won with an ample majority," she said. "Our only objective now will be to overcome unemployment and the crisis."

Rajoy is a former property registrar who held various ministerial posts in the governments of José María Aznar between 1996 and 2004.

Spaniards show little personal enthusiasm for the uncharismatic conservative, but they tired of Zapatero, who oversaw a dramatic economic slump that left growth at 0% and unemployment at 23%.

With Spain's sovereign debt yields last week approaching the levels at which Portugal and Greece needed bailouts, Socialist candidate Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba had little chance of extending the seven-and-a-half year period of leftwing government under Zapatero.

The Socialist prime minister had brought elections forward by six months and said he would not stand again.

Zapatero stays on as caretaker prime minister for another month, however, as parliament must meet and the king has to consult political parties before a new government is formed. Parliament does not sit until 13 December.

It was not clear how the caretaker government would co-ordinate its response to the ongoing sovereign debt crisis with Rajoy's future government, though it has promised to work with the PP.

Government spokesman José Blanco has rejected calls by senior PP officials for the handover to be speeded up. "The timings and calendar are determined by law and cannot be changed," he said.

Spaniards hope the change of government will calm markets that had increased pressure on the country's debt despite Zapatero's own austerity programme, which saw civil service pay cut and pensions frozen.

Deficit spending by regional governments, which provide basic services such as education and health, has also been squeezed, sending public service trade unions out in protest.

Zapatero has also extended the retirement age and changed the constitution to allow for a long-term deficit limit to be set on the budget. Rajoy has said one of his first measures will be to set that limit.

Rajoy's promises of major reforms, more austerity and strict deficit control are in tune with market demands and with those of Germany's Angela Merkel, the European Central Bank and the European commission.

PP shadow finance minister Cristóbal Montoro has said the new government will act hard and fast, introducing reforms immediately. Rajoy must now name his future finance minister. He has said in the past that he is happy to choose someone from outside the party, so may end up naming a market-friendly technocrat.

Further spending cuts on top of those already imposed by Zapatero risk tipping the country into recession. They may also be energetically opposed by the peaceful "indignado" movement that took over city squares earlier this year.

For the first time in decades, Spaniards voted without the threat of violence from Basque separatist group Eta, which declared an end to 40 years of terrorism last month. Basque voters turned out in force and looked likely to send up to half-a-dozen avowedly separatist deputies to the new parliament.


Comments:
Hooray for Spain! At least they know who to blame for their economic problems. Some of us in the country also know who to blame. The problem is, they will continue to support the policitian that promises them the most and to heck with the economy (whatever that is).
@somer I care about Spain, as a lot of other people do. Spain's economic disaster is the direct result of the same types of socialist/fascist/ecodumazz policies that are wrecking our very own US economy now. So again, history repeats itself in Spain, in that socialism blows donkey @#$% as a socio-economic system and we can avoid the same disaster. Spain is also one the bigger economies in Europe that we don't want to fail as it could accelerate a global economic crash.


Well, once again socialism ends in disaster.
So what do we learn from this?
Well, we'll learn that the libs and democrats (sorry for the redundancy) in this country will want to try it again anyway, no matter how many times it's been proven to be a failure.
And in their minds, even if it fails again, at least it will have destroyed the country they hate so much.
@somer I am blocking your dumazz.
I think I see Spain on the list.

Answer:

•Albania
•Andorra
•Armenia
•Austria
•Azerbaijan
•Belarus
•Belgium
•Bosnia & Herzegovina
•Bulgaria
•Croatia
•Cyprus
•Czech Republic
•Denmark
•Estonia
•Finland
•France
•Georgia
•Germany
•Greece
•Hungary
•Iceland
•Ireland
•Italy
•Kosovo
•Latvia
•Liechtenstein
•Lithuania
•Luxembourg
•Macedonia
•Malta
•Moldova
•Monaco
•Montenegro
•The Netherlands
•Norway
•Poland
•Portugal
•Romania
•Russia
•San Marino
•Serbia
•Slovakia
•Slovenia
•Spain
•Sweden
•Switzerland
•Turkey
•Ukraine
•United Kingdom
•Vatican City (Holy See)


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