In polling station number 6 in Madrid-the borough of Las Rozas five different parties ‘ representatives on the go. No valpropaganda is allowed, but the spontaneous conversations with voters slipped continually check on the political track. DN’s envoy helped a conversation between a voter and an activist from the Partido Popular (PP), on the galling in that the right-wing Vox now chasing voters on the PP’s territory.
Image 1 of 4 Santiago Abascal, the leader of the right-wing Vox, voting in a polling station in Madrid. Photo: Andrea Comas/AP Slide 2 of 4 Maica Rodrivilla, economist. Photo: Nathan Shachar Image 3 of 4 Beatriz, 42, lawyer, shall vote on the Vox. Photo: Nathan Shachar Image 4 of 4 Juan Cabrera, 55, sits in the municipal council as a member of the party Partido Popular. Photo: Nathan Shachar Slideshow
Beatriz, the 42-year-old lawyer, is one of the locals that migrated from PP to Vox. She says to dagens nyheter:
” We have our hands full with problems. The eternal unemployment, locking in Catalonia, the school that teaches the children nonsense. Neither the PP or the socialists in the PSOE have any ideas anymore.
the 76-year-old priest Javier Legarra, but for opposite reasons:
– this radicalisation as Vox stands for is just unnecessary. We have it good and people understand not to evaluate this, we kept the peace in politics in forty years. They have forgotten the civil war, where a million spaniards died to a few extremist parties to the right and to the left on a purely okynne hettade up the mood!
Javier Legarra, 76, priest. Photo: Nathan Shachar
Las Rozas, with its one hundred thousand inhabitants is one of Madrid’s most prosperous randkommuner, but it is precisely in such areas that left Podemos usually do well. Maica Rodrivilla, 53, economist and trädgårdsplanerare is the party’s representative at the valbordet. Olof Palme is her idol, ” she says.
– the Spanish scourge is corruption. Here we pay high taxes, but all the time we get to know that politicians lived the good life at our expense. Then, there is no over to the common people. Another problem is the large corporations, who always gets who they want, ” says Maica Rodrivilla to DN.
in Las Rozas local government for the PP. He does not want to criticize the competing Vox and says that it now comes to one of the spaniards. The whole of Spain, he says, should learn from how the right wing has pulled up the school system in Las Rozas:
” this is a young municipality, over a quarter of the residents are school children. We are very well ahead in the polls.
” Yes, but we don’t spend more money than others to our children. Discipline and enjoyment are the key to good educational outcomes. Look at Finland!
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