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What Spain owes the ejected Mariano Rajoy
Keywords: Spain Rajoy, Italy 2018,
This editorial in the Economist says Spain's economy has recovered to pre crisis levels by 2018 with growth at 3 percent. It says Spain had a bigger crisis than Italy and took stronger measures under prime minister Rajoy to fix problems in its banking system, address the housing crisis, and unemployment. Italy's steps by comparison were timid and faltering. Mr. Rajoy had his problems including corruption scandals in his party and a poor handling of the Catalan drive for independence. Yet Spain owes muchas gracias to Rajoy for his leadership in bringing Spain out of the housing and economic crisis, and for running the country for two and a half years after losing his majority in parliament.
Another difference with Italy is the generally favorable attitude to immigration for all parties. Of the newer parties Ciudadanos remains at the centre and the Podemos party remains to the left in politics, as part of the populist changes in Spain during the economic crisis. The new government of Pedro Sanchez has a positive attitude to immigrants and to women, with the largest number of women in the cabinet of any European country.
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Rajoy's history cautiously embracing politics as Spain emerged from the Franco era, his father's advice to avoid politics after the searing experience of his grandfather in Galicia, the early years in Pontevedra, Galicia, and regional pride in Galicia, are described in Rajoy's book "En Confianza." Regional pride and the European experiment appear to be intertwined, just as Germany would like to see its political entity merged with a European entity, Spain would like to see its political entity merged with the European entity, because of a searing interwar period. Rajoy would genuinely like to see the European experiment go forward as he made the decision to accept EU aid.
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About 60% of the economy and 80% of the jobs in Spain are with small and medium sized business. The consolidation of banks is leading to loss of local contact. The need to build capital reserves to cover bad loan losses means banks are calling in loans to these businesses. This is happening in smaller towns and cities across Spain, and will worsen the already high 25% unemplyment rate. The credit squeeze is hurting the recovery.
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The left oriented Podemos internet based party won 8% of the vote in Spain's European parliamentary elections of 2014. The Socialist party and the Partido Popular when combined failed to win over 50% of the vote in the Spanish election reflecting the deep discontent with unemployment at about 26% and only slight job gains. In France Hollande's Socialist party did worse with only 13% of the vote in EU parliamentary elections. In Britain Cameron's Conservatives came in third behind the Independence party and Labor party. Only in Germany, Netherlands and Italy did the ruling parties do well.
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Banks in Italy are paying much higher interest rates to borrow than French or German banks leading to higher rates for small and medium sized businesses in Italy. In Italy these businesses employ about 80% of workers, in Spain which faces a similar situation the figure is about 67%. The credit squeeze is hurting the recovery.
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Shares of Bankia reached 1.31 euros in Jan 2014. The government valued each share of Bankia at 1.35 euros at the time of the government bailout of Bankia. The government has till 2017 to sell its 68% stake in Bankia under the eurozone banking bailout. Much remains to be done to complete restructuring of the bank including recovering losses in a separate "bad" bank. Shares of Bankia were up 65% since Sept. 2013.
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