Brand campaign debate the state of the nation in Spain – El Universal (Venezuela)

Madrid.- The annual general policy debate in Spain became the prologue Tuesday in an election campaign this year will be long, because there will be local elections in May and legislative end of 2015, which resulted in exchanges acres, mainly between the two major parties.

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy (the conservative Popular Party , PP), took stock of his term, which began in December 2011, in which he stressed that has left behind the “nightmare” of then, the brunt of the economic crisis, to enter now on the path recovery

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announced today that the Spanish economy will grow 2.4% in 2015, four tenths more than expected and listed measures support for permanent contracts and families, while more burdened address their mortgage debt to that formed by a single parent and two children can access grants of 1,200 euros a month.

However, he stressed that the great social measure of the legislature was that the Government did not ask the rescue with international funds that many claimed him in the first months of his term, which in his opinion, allowed to circumvent social cuts.

At this point openly disagreed Pedro Sánchez, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), debutante in such debates and who themselves were rescue, referring to the line up to 100,000 million euros used to clean up the financial system, heavily damaged by the economic down and, above all, by the collapse of the real estate sector.

According to Sanchez of that money was spent on Bankia rescue the company, then headed by the former director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Rodrigo Rato, Rajoy fellow in the PP.

Rajoy also announced an “ambitious” fiscal reform aimed boost growth and employment and improve competitiveness in order to create three million jobs in the coming years.

Meanwhile, the Socialist leader said that the three-year term of the PP have been a ” destruction “to Spain and therefore offered to citizens, in this election year, an” exit on the left, a safe and hopeful change. “

Both also got involved when they spoke of the respective cases of corruption One of the issues that most concern to the Spanish citizens, according to polls.

In the discussion there was talk of lace Catalonia in the State since last month nationalists that region fueling a movement aimed at deciding their fate as the government considers illegal and has not found support in court.

Rajoy offered dialogue to resolve the dispute, provided it is based on legality, while the spokesman Catalan nationalists in Congress, José Antonio Duran Lleida, the prime minister criticized the “negligence” by not giving a political response to the problem of Catalonia, which runs the risk of “entrenched” if you insist on judicializarlo.

“At this rate the regional parliament declared independence one day Catalonia and the response of the head of Rajoy will resort to the courts,” said Duran, for whom the solution, ultimately, can only go through a consultation to citizenship .

In the debate, which will continue tomorrow, two political fashion are absent in Spain, since their parties without representation in Congress, but which polls predict a growth in different elections this year.

One of them is the MEP Pablo Iglesias, Podemos party that different polls put in second place in voting intentions after the PP and articulates his speech mode rejection politics of the two major parties and corruption

The other is Alberto Rivera, -private citizens in voting intentions in numerous surveys -. that from Catalonia advocates a moderate speech for the unity of Spain, the fight against corruption and an economic model with more attention to the social.

All surveys assume that the next elections will be the end of bipartisanship, based on PP and PSOE, which has characterized the political Spanish for over three decades and suggest that agreements between parties will be required to reach the government.

Before the legislative elections scheduled for November will be held in May, 8000 to renew seventeen municipalities and regions, a significant share of power.

In addition, this year there will be elections in two others (in March) regions, Andalusia, which is the main contribution of socialist votes, and Catalonia (September), with the nationalist thrust for their right to decide the territory.