Nov 20, 2011

Today, Spain´s presidential elections have finalized with PP (Partido Popular) winning the rat race and also gaining majority in the congress, which is a huge change since the past few years have been principally ruled by the opposing party.

Given that the country has 21% unemployment and doesn´t see the "crisis" getting much better in the near term, the public is obviously quite upset with the recent political party (please allow me this generalization) and many people don´t feel they can trust the system --- whether that be the political candidates, the bankers, etc.

Here´s a great picture that someone sent on to me that seems to sum it all up in one.

For those of you who don´t ready Spanish.  This is a photo of a street garbage bin.  The title of the poster (just like the sarcastic motivational posters we have) says "Electoral urinals" and the vandalism on the bin says

"vote here, it´s all the same / it doesn´t matter"




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