Hailing Spain’s improving economic health under his conservative government’s stewardship, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy warned austerity-weary voters against the temptation to back popular hard-left Podemos party in elections due this year. Eyeing municipal and regional elections in May, and legislative polling expected in November, Rajoy said Sunday that hard-won economic recovery created by painful austerity policies must not be lost by a voter “leap in the dark” in backing leftist populists from Podemos. “We can not bet our future and those of our children in a frivolous game of Russian roulette,” Rajoy told a congress of his Popular Party in Madrid Sunday, referring to Podemos — which like its Greek party ally Syriza has found considerable popular support by rejecting austerity programs adopted amid economic crisis. With polls showing Podemos running shoulder-to-shoulder with conservatives, Rajoy issued warnings about progress that would be lost if Spain reversed policies imposed as part of an international bailout of the country.
Eyeing elections as growth resumes, Spain PM takes swipe at hard-left
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