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Survey shows corruption again a major worry for Spaniards

Xinhua, March 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

The recent spate of corruption scandals uncovered in Spain has led to corruption rising sharply among the main worries of the Spanish population, according to an investigation published on Tuesday.

The monthly Barometer for Public opinion published by Spain's Center for Sociological Investigation (CIS) shows that while unemployment is still the major worry for Spaniards, with 78 percent viewing it as a problem, 47.5 percent consider corruption to also be a major cause for concern.

The CIS study was carried out in the first 11 days of February, coinciding with the revelations of two major corruption scandals (Operation Taula and Operation Punica) affecting acting Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy's Peoples' Party (PP) in Valencia and in Madrid.

The trial for the Noos Corruption case in which Infanta Cistiana de Borbon, the youngest sister of King Felipe VI of Spain, faces charges of tax avoidance alongside her husband Inaki Urdangarin (who also faces charges of money laundering, false accounting and embezzlement), also began at the start of the year, to blanket coverage in the Spanish media.

Elsewhere Spaniards are also concerned about the recovery of their economy with 25.1 percent saying 'economic indolence' was a problem.

However, the fact Spain's main political parties have so far failed to reach an agreement over the formation of a new government almost three months after the December 20 general election doesn't seem to be an issue with Spaniards.

Only 1.4 percent of the 2,478 respondents in the study say the lack of government as a problem and although 22.2 percent admitted to being worried about politics and the country's politicians, this was actually lower than the 23.4 percent who had felt that way a month earlier. Endit