Spanish lawyer Gonzalez Durantez launches centrist party for November election
Democracy21 will contest the early election in Madrid and Barcelona, as polls show the PP and Vox could win a parliamentary majority.
- On Saturday, lawyer Miriam Gonzalez Durantez launched Democracy21, a new Spanish political party, to run in the November 29 early general election and recover democratic values amid Spain's ideological divide.
- Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called the snap election on Monday after parliament rejected measures to address a mounting housing crisis, creating a volatile political landscape in Spain.
- An 87-year-old woman's death on Tuesday following an eviction intensified mass protests over surging rents; Gonzalez Durantez blamed both ruling and opposition politicians, calling them 'a cost, a burden for the country.'
- Criticizing 'two rigid blocs with nothing to foster consensus,' Gonzalez Durantez pledged to identify problems and 'simply fix it' rather than play politics, calling on Spaniards to set aside ideological differences.
- Opinion polls indicate the conservative People's Party and far-right Vox may win a combined parliamentary majority, while Democracy21 plans to challenge the established rivalry with candidates in Madrid and Barcelona.
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The party was born with a vocation to present an alternative to traditional parties and with the aim of "regenerating Spanish democracy".
Spanish lawyer Gonzalez Durantez launches centrist party for November election
MADRID, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Lawyer Miriam Gonzalez Durantez launched a new Spanish political party on Saturday to run in an early general election on November 29, promising to rise above a growing ideological divide, recover democratic values and depoliticise institutions.
González places President Pedro Sánchez and PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo together to go to Brussels to get that 10.
The Vallisoletan lawyer, who will appear in the districts of Madrid and Barcelona, asks Sánchez and Feijóo to take a step next door if they do not know "how to solve the problems of Spain" Read
Ask for guarantees to attend in the districts of Madrid and Barcelona, the only ones for which it will be presented
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It sets its goal as a fight against 'them', politicians of every ideology that has corrupted the system
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