Can they win? Maybe they can… Since the party’s surprise result in May’s European elections in Spain, when Podemos burst out of obscurity to win almost eight percent of the vote, opinion polls have reflected a steady growth in support. In November’s survey by the government’s CIS research centre, Podemos came first in voter intention with 17.6 percent saying they would vote for the party if general elections were held tomorrow. In the CIS’s overall estimate of a general election result at this moment, Podemos came third on 22.5 percent, behind the PP and Socialists. Published by the newspaper El País on November 2nd, the latest poll by Metroscopia put Podemos ahead of the “big two”, in the lead on 27.7 percent. The wave of corruption scandals has tarnished the image of the traditional parties at a time when Spanish governments of both left and right have been unable to prevent unemployment spiralling to unprecedented levels in the wake of the euro crisis.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:23:39 +0000
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