THE APRIL GENERAL ELECTION OPENED THE POSSIBILITY TO FORM A GOVERNMENT OF THE LEFT. AFTER MANY NEGOTIATIONS WITH ADVANCES AND RETREATS HOWEVER, THE SITUATION STALLED AND THE SOCIALIST PARTY (PSOE) REFUSED TO INCLUDE MINISTERS FROM “UNIDAS PODEMOS” (UP) IN ITS GOVERNMENT.
Pablo Iglesias Turrion leads ‘Unidas Podemos’ (UP), an electoral alliance made of Podemos, United Left, Equo and other left wing parties. UP was formed in 2016.
Pressure for the PSOE to reject UP had come from the European Union, from the stock market index (IBEX 35) and from the bourgeois class generally. Not surprising really, considering how directly the UP’s programme clashes with the interests of the top employers. Here it goes :
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Right to dignified and stable jobs and secure pensions. Scrap the Labour Reform.
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Defend the public services by recovering the original investments made in them, and now using these for health, education and social services.
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For public policies that work towards equality.
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Transform the depopulated areas and guarantee public services in all outlying areas.
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Revoke the Mordaza law [1].
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Control the rents, stop speculation, secure the right to housing, enlarge the public housing stock.
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Raise taxes on those who can pay, to guarantee social justice.
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Stand up to the Climate Emergency crisis. Reform the energy market.