21 Dec, 2010 @ 14:34
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Andalucia goes conservative

THE LATEST opinion poll is putting the conservative PP Party in Andalucia at 9.1 per cent ahead of the governing socialists.

Counting on the support of 47 per cent of the voters, PP is now in a strong enough position to get an absolute majority in the region.

PSOE socialists have governed Andalucia since the first regional elections in 1982.

But their popularity is constantly reaching new lows amid a protracted economic downturn.

The new IESA poll shows that 70% of Andalucians want a change of government.

Leftwing hardliners of Izquierda Unida (IU) are also doing well, boosting their share of the vote to 8.2 per cent, according to IESA.

The Junta’s Socialist boss Antonia Grinan, however, continue to come on top in personal polls, underlining the voters’ overall disillusion with the political leaders.

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Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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