Do not leave them alone

Follow the election has a strange taste when you do it from afar. It 's all a bit' inside you, around the others live a different everyday life, made up of other things and other expectations. In New York it was Memorial Day, Holocaust Memorial Day in some way, as ever more conducive to "welcome" what was going on in Italian cities.

At the park, with Dorothy, I could not take my eyes from my IPhone, subtle link between me and the northern and southern Italy. That Italy offended and hurt to death recklessly and repeatedly. I watched from afar, and I said "up, come on, pulled up." And then the party scene. It seemed to me to be there.

Zapatero loses much of the administrative

It 's more of a thud. It 's a historic defeat that the Spanish PSOE cashed in local elections. The nightmare that the Zapatero government was afraid of having to live, was initiated with the worst weather. The Spaniards, called to renew 8.116 municipalities and regional assemblies of 13 autonomous communities, except in the case of firing exceptions, have rewarded the Partido Popular.

The conservatives are growing by 10 points against the PSOE. A given explosive, whereas up to now, the best went back to 4.45 percentage points in 1995. In particular, the PP Mariano Rajoy wins in Valencia and Aragon, and especially in Madrid where he obtained an absolute majority even to the Municipality and the Regional Assembly.

"Yes we camp" in Spain comes the motion 15-M

The sign "Yes we camp" stands out well in the center of the main tent of the camp to Plaza Catalunya in Barcelona. Suit the movement 15-M: peaceful, heterogeneous, spontaneous but also determined. "We will not leave this place - says Guillermo, a university student - we still have too many things to say.

Do not tell us that in Spain there is always the 'freedom of expression? "Same content in Madrid, the Puerta del Sol, where thousands of people are meeting during the last night despite a heavy rain. For the protesters do not even care to know the verdict of the Board of Elections, asked to rule on the legality of the occupation during the election campaign.

Germany, Merkel is knocking at the administrative, command Greens in Baden-Wuerttenberg

The first exit polls draw a heavy defeat by the majority coalition led by Chancellor Merkel in Baden-Wuerttenberg Amgela where the Greens would get 25% and the SPD Social Democrats 23.5% against 38% of the CDU and only 5 % of the liberals (FDP) Guido Westerwelle. For the CDU German Chancellor Angela Merkel, today was a historic defeat where the party is in power from 1953 (with an absolute majority from 1972 to 1988).