Socialism has worked so well in Spain, they have over 20% unemployment. The socialist leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba in that country is the latest socialist eurotrash to resign after his party got slaughtered in the European Parliament elections. At least in Europe, the socialists have the common decency to resign from office after their party gets slaughtered. Here in America, they just get cheered on by the corrupt media, and the other party is labeled ‘racist, sexist’ etc.
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| Spain’s Socialist leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba resigns |
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Spain’s Socialist opposition leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Monday he was stepping down after the party had its worst-ever election result on Sunday with an upstart rival leftist group grabbing 8 per cent of the vote. Recession-weary voters, unhappy with public-sector wage cuts, layoffs and corruption scandals also punished the ruling center-right People’s Party.
Together, the two parties that have dominated Spanish politics since the country returned to democracy in the 1970s, took less than 50 per cent of the vote. A brand new leftist party led by 35-year-old university professor Pablo Iglesias was the big winner, taking 8 per cent of the vote and five seats in the European Parliament.
The Socialists lost nine of their 23 seats in the European Parliament while the ruling centre-right People’s Party lost eight of its 24 seats. Together, the two parties that have dominated Spanish politics since the country returned to democracy in the 1970s, took less than 50 per cent of the vote.
“It’s clear that we haven’t regained voters’ confidence,” Mr. Rubalcaba said in a televised news conference. “There has to be new leadership that takes on change.”