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Europe
Spain opposition ahead in polls
2011-10-17
SpainÂ’s center-right opposition PeopleÂ’s Party (PP) is on track to win a convincing absolute majority in the Nov. 20 general election, two newspaper polls showed on Sunday.

If the election were held tomorrow, the PP would get 45.5 percent of the vote, 15.8 percentage points ahead of the ruling Socialists, the PSOE, a poll published by the center-left El Pais showed. A poll published by the right-leaning paper El Mundo put the PPÂ’s lead at 17.2 percentage points, the partyÂ’s biggest lead since January.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has been in power since 2004, but his popularity has plummeted as a result of a recession which has seen unemployment rise to the highest level of any industrialized nation.
The Spanish socialists have been beneficiaries of some 'fortunate' terrible events just before the polls in the last couple of elections. Not that we're cynics at the Burg, but I'd ask the police to be extra-careful these next few weeks...
According to both polls, the PP, led by Mariano Rajoy, would secure 185 to 196 seats in the 350-seat parliament, handing the party a strong mandate to govern.

Rajoy is better able to tackle the economy and markets and inspires more confidence than Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the veteran PSOE politician running for the Socialist ticket, according to those polled by Metroscopia on behalf of El Pais.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Zapatero is a far left pinhead - good riddance. He was a huge green energy / green jobs proponent which failed miserably and put Spain even deeper in debt.
Posted by: CincinnatusChili   2011-10-17 10:10  

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