Spain’s ruling PP loss rooted in economic performance: Analyst

Press TV has conducted an interview with political commentator Javier Farje in London, and Dr. Ruben Herrero de Castro, a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, to discuss the political and economic situation in Spain following municipal elections in the country.

Farje believes that recession, corruption, and unemployment, especially among young people,are the main reasons behind the weak performance of Spain’s ruling People’s Party (PP) in the local elections.

Although the PP succeeded to implement some reforms in terms of macroeconomics in the past years, these changes never affected the life of ordinary people, who are still suffering  the consequences of the recession, Fraje says.

Meanwhile, Ruben believes that the current economic crisis in Spain is the direct corollary of the Socialist Party’s mismanagement when it ruled the country.

He says the PP’s failure in the elections stems from its inefficiency in communicating its economic achievements to the people.

In such a situation, other parties, including the Socialist Party, managed to seize the opportunity and to take advantage of people’s naivete by dint of expressing “easy slogans for complex problems,” he says.

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