Labor and social insecurity focuses positions presented in the Spanish Labor Day

USPA NEWS - Thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in 70 Spanish cities, called by unions to demand wage and social improvements in the celebration of the First of May Holiday, when Europe celebrates the Labor Day.

The largest demonstration was in Madrid, which was attended by the general secretaries of the two main Spanish unions: UGT, social court, and Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) Communist-inspired. Socialist Party politicians, Citizens, United Left and Podemos were also present at the demonstration in Madrid, held under the slogan "Against the wage and social poverty." They are, according to the unions, the two main problems facing Spanish workers and have been exacerbated by the political situation.

The general secretaries of CCOO, Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, and UGT, Pepe Alvarez, considered this International Labour Day is "a turning point" for social demands, since the problems people can not wait. Both leaders called for participation in the legislative elections on June 26 for "change fee", Spain needs an "urgent" change of economic policy and the creation of "decent jobs".

Faced with these demands, the conservative Popular Party issued a manifesto Sunday in claiming their economic policies and calls his program for the next term as "a prudent and realistic plan" to consolidate economic recovery. Conservatives are convinced that their proposals "will allow Spain to recover in 2016 the level of lost income to the crisis, growing more than the EU average and further progress in reducing the public deficit and debt." The Popular Party woke up Sunday with a survey published in the newspaper El Pais, whereby a high abstention in the elections of June 26th conservatives favor. Other polls published Sunday agree to give the Popular Party an increase in votes and seats.