MADRID - the national electoral commission of the Spain said demonstrations convened for illegal Saturday, but the Prime Minister on Friday avoided saying whether he will order the police to disperse crowds of mainly young people angry about their bleak economic future.
The commission issued its order Thursday evening while thousands of people demonstrated for a fourth straight night in central Madrid and dozens of other Spanish cities during the economic crisis and political parties that they consider ineptcorrupt and indifferent to the ordinary people of the difficulty in obtaining by the country.
Municipal and regional elections are scheduled for Sunday, and protesters have said they will rally Saturday, and after that, in a movement they say is just earn.
The Socialist party widely expected to suffer big losses, at the ballot box may be even in traditional bastions. Government presides over an economy of difficulty overcome recession and create jobs to chip at a rate of 21.3% unemployment, the highest in the euro area.
In an interview on the radio Friday, Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said it will play things in his ear about whether if he ordered police to break up demonstrations.
"We will see what happens tomorrow." In any event, I should not receive before events, "he told Cadena SER." "I can say is that the Government and the Ministry of the Interior will have many, will contain correctly and will be involve with intelligence.".
Pressed as to what would happen if protesters in fact defy the ban, Zapatero repeated the same answer, almost word for Word.
In Spain, gatherings which urge people to vote one way or the other are prohibited on the eve of an election. These days of voting eves are called "days of reflection". The national electoral commission 13 members cited this rule by saying: there may be no protest Saturday or Sunday, the polling day.
But he has been deeply divided, with the ban approved by just a margin of one vote. The Group of experts met to give a general decision for all the Spain because the organs of the provincial election had issued contradictory, with some protests for this week and some decisions prohibiting their, as was the case in Madrid.
"Days of reflection and vote, our electoral legislation prohibits any act of propaganda or the election campaign," the commission wrote.
However, the organizers of the demonstrations say that they have no party affiliation, do not seek to affect the outcome anyway, and not even urge people to abstain from voting.
Zapatero urged the protesters to meet on Saturday as a day of reflection and said that it was sensitive to the concerns of young people with an unemployment rate of more than 40%. But he said future Spain of economic crises before and urged Spaniards not step to lose hope, although he acknowledged that it will take years to considerably lower the unemployment rate.
With the protesters, insisting on the fact that they are tired with the political system of the Spain in General, Zapatero said that he felt as the main target of their anger.
"Without a shadow of a doubt, as Prime Minister, I must feel like one who is more singularisé," Zapatero said.
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