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| Especial atención a ese pie de foto: "Rajoy, the man with nothing to say". Spanish politics: Anyone want to run this country? | The Economist Anyone want to run this country? Floundering Spain looks ahead to an early general election Aug 6th 2011 | MADRID | from the print edition THE game was up. Last week José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s prime minister, announced that the country would hold a general election on November 20th, four months earlier than planned. In doing so, he was bringing forward a new era in Spanish politics. The unpopular Mr Zapatero, who has responded only belatedly to Spain’s economic difficulties, announced several months ago that he would not seek another term in office. But he knows that his successor as Socialist candidate for prime minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, stands virtually no chance of winning the vote. Polls suggest that Mariano Rajoy, leader of the opposition conservative People’s Party (PP), looks certain to triumph. Mr Rajoy pledges reform, and Spain certainly needs it. The economy is stagnant. At 21%, the unemployment rate is by some way the worst in the European Union. With borrowing costs once again spiralling this week, Mr Zapatero was forced to postpone his summer holiday to cope with the crisis. Mr Rajoy called for the vote to be held sooner, in October. Mr Rajoy realises that what Spaniards most want are jobs and a sound economy. But he also offers something that stretches credibility: austerity without pain. “I do not intend to make social cuts,” he says. Since May, when the PP soared to victory over the Socialists in local and regional elections, voters have had a sneak preview of the party in office. The PP now runs 11 of Spain’s 17 autonomous governments; this matters in a decentralised country where regional administrations accounted for almost a third of the overall budget deficit last year. The signs are not encouraging. Elena Salgado, the finance minister, wants regional governments to do their bit by limiting their budget deficits to 1.3% of GDP this year. At a meeting last week she urged them to return money advanced by central government in previous years on the basis of growth estimates that turned out to be overly optimistic. Not possible, squealed the PP regions (backed by Socialist Andalusia). Some claimed that sending the money back would squeeze their ability to finance health and education properly. Tiny Murcia—historically a big over-spender—even threatened to hand back administration of those services to Madrid. “The government asphyxiates us,” moaned Salvador Marin, the region’s finance boss. In the end Ms Salgado blinked, offering soft loans to cover half the money the regions must return, and so in effect bumping up the national debt. Some PP-run regional governments have eked out efficiencies, cut investment and merged departments. Madrid, for example, has been even more austere than the central government wished. But elsewhere, problems are mounting. In Catalonia, whose economy is as big as Portugal’s, the minority nationalist government plans to run a deficit of 2.7% of GDP this year, more than twice Ms Salgado’s limit. The PP, which props up Artur Mas’s administration in Barcelona, has identified €1.2 billion ($1.7 billion) of further savings. But rather than reduce the deficit further it wants this money ploughed back into health services. Mr Rajoy faces a dilemma over the coming months. To win votes he must seem moderate, but to gain respect from the markets and Brussels he must seem severe. For the moment, votes are what counts. One recent poll showed that the Socialists had cut the PP’s lead to seven percentage points. If that transpires on election day, Mr Rajoy would find himself at the head of a minority government, with less clout over the economy. Either way, cutting the deficit is likely to be one of his hardest tasks. He is against raising taxes so, if growth does not pick up, he must cut spending instead. This year Spain is aiming to bring the deficit down from 9.2% of GDP to 6%. Next year’s target is 4.4%. In private, some in the PP acknowledge that Ms Salgado has made a good start. It is now time for their leader to show how he means to follow her. Edito, que no puse el enlace jejeje.
__________________ Aquel que es demasiado pequeño tiene un orgullo grande. Voltaire. ![]() ![]() : Última edición por Pepito Burbujas; 04-ago-2011 a las 23:31 |
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| Je je je je je qué bueno, no era yo el unico que pensaba así del barbas... Je je je je je...
__________________ Un Código de Buena Conducta para los bancos, MENUDA MIERDA!!! No tenéis cojones a hacerles pagar parte de la crisis... Cuando ruede alguna cabeza preguntaréis por qué ![]() Banca Cívica?!?!?! Banca Inteligente?!?!?! Banca Ética?!?!?! Hay que joderse con el oxímoron...La bajada del Euribor NO BENEFICIA a 4 MILLONES DE HIPOTECAS con cláusula suelo. Tanto cuesta decirlo cada mes con cada nueva bajada de Euribor...?!?!?!?!?! |
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| Con nada que decir... Pero con muchisimo por hacer. Esperemos que lo haga pensando en España y no en sus bolsillos o en los de la gente que lo han llevao a moncloa. Aunque sigo diciendo que amí no me salen las cuentas para una mayoria absoluta.
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| Democracia y tal ... for the moment, después severidad y markets. Joder, si gobiernan los mercados que designen ellos al capataz y nos ahorramos el paripé. Saludos. |
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| traducción google para hijos de la logse ¿Alguien quiere gobernar este país?
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Iniciado por Keynesian defendiendo el robo (eso si, sin abusar) Seguro que un trabajador de McDonals también se come alguna que otra hamburguesa gratis, un recepcionista de hotel duerme gratis en alguna habitación, un empleado de agencia de viajes pilla algún viaje de gorra etc. |
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| Siempre es curioso y revelador ver el enfoque exterior
__________________ Though I know that evenin’s empire has returned into sand Vanished from my hand Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet I have no one to meet And the ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming www.SaharaLibre.es Los hombres, cuando reciben un mal lo escriben sobre un mármol; más si se trata de un bien, lo hacen en el polvo. |
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| Sobre todo si es tan poco interesado como los anglos. |
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| Y tanto, es lo que pasa a los que solo ven Tele Mandril o Canal Nové
__________________ Un Código de Buena Conducta para los bancos, MENUDA MIERDA!!! No tenéis cojones a hacerles pagar parte de la crisis... Cuando ruede alguna cabeza preguntaréis por qué ![]() Banca Cívica?!?!?! Banca Inteligente?!?!?! Banca Ética?!?!?! Hay que joderse con el oxímoron...La bajada del Euribor NO BENEFICIA a 4 MILLONES DE HIPOTECAS con cláusula suelo. Tanto cuesta decirlo cada mes con cada nueva bajada de Euribor...?!?!?!?!?! |
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| Rajoy, el hombre sin nada que decir (y que efectivamente no dice nada ...) Ya se mofan hasta en The Economist ..... jo, buen futuro nos toca .... |
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Hijos de la LOGSE? Como si la gente que estudió antes de la LOGSE supiera mucho inglés |
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