“Anti-austerity
party Podemos is set to win a Spanish general election due this year,
according to a poll published in newspaper El Pais on Sunday, but
support for the leftist party may be showing signs of fatigue.”
“The
poll made clear that the two parties which have dominated politics
for decades, the ruling centre-right People's Party and the
Socialists, are struggling to counter new rivals.”
“Podemos
(We Can), led by a plain-speaking 36-year-old [Pablo Iglesias] with a
doctorate in political science and a masters in communication, has
drawn comparisons with the left-wing winner of Greece's election,
Syriza. The poll showed Podemos winning 27.7 percent of the vote,
down a touch from 28.2 percent one month ago. [...] The ruling
People's Party recovered some ground from last month to take second
place with 20.9 percent versus 19.2 percent. But the Socialists shed
more than five percentage points to slip to third place with 18.3
percent, the survey conducted via 1,000 telephone interviews showed.”
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