| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/06/26, 7:35 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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BARCELONA, Spain, Jun 25 2013 (IPS) - Economy professor Arcadi Oliveres has become a popular face of the
growing discontent in Spain because he calls a spade a spade.
“I have called for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to be impeached for destroying the welfare state,” he said.But Oliveres, from Catalonia in northeast Spain, is not alone in his mission. He and Teresa Forcades, a Benedictine nun and medical doctor, have created an unusual platform representing people who are fed up with
the country’s leaders who, they say, failed to do anything to prevent the severe economic crisis tearing Spain apart.
The platform is also supported by leftwing parties and sectors related to health, housing and education – areas that have been drastically affected by the conservative Rajoy administration’s budget cuts.
“There are good, well-intentioned, well-educated people who don’t agree with the economic decisions and the current political process,”Oliveres told IPS. “Our mission is to bring together people from these
three sectors and come up with a joint candidate for the parliamentary
elections in Catalonia in 2016.”
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