Posted on 11/06/2011 6:29:32 PM PST by Signalman
(Reuters) - Spain's center-right People's Party will comfortably win parliamentary elections in two weeks time with an absolute majority, a private poll showed on Sunday, as voters punish the Socialist government for the country's economic woes.
The survey by Sigma Dos polling company published in newspaper El Mundo showed the PP winning the elections with 47.6 percent of the votes, compared with 30.6 percent for the ruling Socialists. That is barely changed from a poll taken on November 2.
The 17 percentage point advantage was in line with a survey published on Friday by the government's Center for Sociological Research (CIS), and comes before the election on November 20.
The private poll results would give the PP an outright majority in parliament, which would enable it to push through reforms more easily without the backing of other parties.
Voters are set to punish the ruling Socialists after eight year in government and a worsening crisis that has seen the unemployment rate rise from around 9 percent at the end of 2007, to 21.5 percent in the third quarter of the year.
The poll also showed that 43 percent of voters between 18 and 29-years-old would vote for the PP, compared with 24.4 percent for the Socialists.
Youth unemployment stood at 48 percent in September, according to Eurostat data.
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I was calling this way back in 2005.
So now that Osama Bin Laden is dead it’s time to finally vote out the prime minister he put in office.
As it should be. The parasites have scrounged for too long - again. Socialism ALWAYS fails. The lazy just get lazier, and they breed little lazies that grow up to be big lazies.
Eventually, the working class has to stand up and say "Enough. It's time the socialists earned their own keep."
Id stay out of Spanish train stations until the election is finished.
Id stay out of Spanish train stations until the election is finished.
I certainly hope the Spanish socialists are going down. I hope the new government repeals much of their legislation.
Far too little, way too late.
Good news! It’s the socialism, Spain. DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic.
Take advice from the Frenchman...
“Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.”
Bastiat 1801-1850
They are dumping the socialists? Wow. I only hope America’s voters are as smart as Spain’s.
First the UK, then Portugal flipped from socialist/labor/left to center-right. Then it was Portugal. Now it will be Spain. These countries will survive the debt explosion. Greece, on the other hand, is a goner. And, Italy is very iffy.
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