Madrid (AFP) – Tens of thousands of people close to the Spanish anti-liberal party Podemos, an ally of SYRIZA, manifested on Saturday in the streets of Madrid in Spain also to demonstrate the will of “change” has never been as strong.
The great “March for Change” to leave at noon from the Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid to connect the Puerta del Sol, in the historic center, a compact crowd gathered without probably tens of thousands of people from the procession, according to several journalists from AFP.
“If se puede if se puede” (Yes, that’s possible), chanted the crowd. “Tick tock, tick tock, it’s time for change,” it added also on large banners of demonstrators disembarking bus from all over Spain.
The march comes less a week after the victory Sunday of the leftist Syriza, whose leaders have consistently campaigned alongside those of Podemos.
Coming from two European countries have experienced the worst of the crisis, with more than a fifth of their workforce unemployed, and Syriza Podemos share a rejection of the “troika” (Central Bank and European Commission, International Monetary Fund).
According to them, it is necessary to end the empire of international finance who forgets the human and the question of a debt restructuring.
“What happened in Greece is historic. Everyone knows that the next, it is Spain, “said Saturday the online newspaper Publico the French Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the Left Party in France, also an ally of both training and who should be involved on Saturday.
The rally comes less than a year of legislative Spain and four months of partial municipal and regional elections where Podemos candidates are scheduled to present.
The party, founded it There was just one year, was the surprise early May 2014 by getting 1.2 million votes, five members, with the European.
Since then, his rise in the polls has been meteoric, regularly exceeding the Socialist Party and sometimes even the Popular Party (right) in power, theoretically becoming the first or second political force.
This is also “to end the two-party” and the “rotten regime “these parties after the end of the Franco regime in 1978, Antonio Lopez, a high school student of 17, traveled all night from Andalusia (south), by bus, to come forward.
– A Celebration –
Podemos, “We can,” from the Occupy movement born in Madrid May 15, 2011 to protest the high finance, austerity and the establishment deemed corrupt, the “caste “made an unusual challenge: manifest not” against “but” for this march must remove the fear people “
.”. Syriza led the way, “confided one of the protesters, Sergio Dominguez, 33, a mechanic in the aeronautics, unemployed for three years.
” This is not an event, it is a party, “assured his side one of the party leaders, Inigo Errejon.
” On January 31, we will demonstrate that together we will change the history of our country, “promises its leader, the charismatic political science professor Pablo Iglesias, aged 36.
“The enthusiasm and the will overflow into the streets” of Madrid, it added also on the Twitter account of Podemos, which, inspired by the “Yes We Can” Barack Obama, also resumed his recipes combining the extensive use of social networking, door-to-door and neighborhood meetings.
The party was violently attacked by right and left traditional Spanish who accuse him of populism and endanger the fragile economic recovery (+ 1.4% in 2014), promising “the moon and even the sun.”
Each day media close to one side or the other engaged revelations aimed to show what they describe as the true face of its officers, accused of hiding their extreme nature left or to be funded Venezuela.
Podemos has planned to finish his walk to the Puerta del Sol, a place which, because of its size, was already full at 12:30 (11:30 GMT). An image, which it hopes will mark the Spaniards.
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