Spanish Left: 50 Steps to Govern Together
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1275 .... June 24, 2016
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Spanish Left: 50 Steps to Govern Together
The coalition between Podemos and IU (called "Unidos Podemos" -- Together We Can) is the only one that, on 26 June, could overturn the situation created by the 20 December Spanish election. In order to do that, Podemos and IU have agreed on a 50-point programme to end austerity and bring democracy to the country. Here we present a translation posted on the transform! website.
The upcoming general election will not simply be another election like those that have preceded it. Given their political importance, we will participate with a comprehensive agreement. The political forces taking part in this agreement will keep for June 26th election their own manifestos as proclaimed for December 20th, 2015. Nevertheless, we have produced a... common document communicating to Spanish society the main points of common ground found between the various manifestos and, above all, the main lines of action for the Government of progress and change that we hope to lead as a result of the June 26th election. The document is a roadmap comprised of fifty steps that we will use to respond to the major challenges our society is facing in the short- and medium-term.
The text is entitled "50 Steps to Govern Together," and it is organized around five main topics: economy, society, politics and institutions, the environment, and international affairs.
Today, nothing is more urgent than putting a Government in place that is able to build a new future for our country; a new future for the millions of low-paid workers and the hundreds of thousands of young people that have been forced to look abroad because of a lack of opportunities here at home. Nothing is more urgent than helping the families that have lost their home, those that have been forced to close their businesses, and those that have lost everything during this financial crisis. Nothing is more urgent than protecting workers that put in extra, unpaid hours for a miserable wage, those that want to start their own family but have no resources to do so, the sick that can barely pay for their medications, and the retired that have gone back to supporting their families - this time with their pensions. Nothing is more urgent than reinstating the investment taken away from public health care and public education, from social services and dependants, from research and development, from infrastructure, culture, and sport. Nothing is more urgent that putting an end to the systematic theft of public funds that the corrupt political elite have been practising for decades with total impunity.
Today, nothing is more urgent that putting a Government in place that works to defend dignified living and working conditions for the vast majority of our nation, and guarantees that those who are corrupt will come to be tried before a judge, and not sit on the Board of Directors for Spain's large, strategic companies.