Spain’s conservative party sweeps to victory

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Spain’s opposition conservatives swept commandingly into power and into the hot seat Sunday as voters enduring a 21.5 percent jobless rate and stagnant economy dumped the Socialists – the third time in as many weeks Europe’s debt crisis has claimed a government.

Awaiting words from victorious party leader and future prime minister Mariano Rajoy, thousands of jubilant, cheering supporters waving red-and-yellow Spanish flags and blue-and-white party ones gathered outside Popular Party headquarters in downtown Madrid as pop music boomed over loudspeakers.

With 90 percent of the votes from the election counted, the center-right PP won 186 seats compared to 154 in the last legislature, while the Socialists plummeted from 169 to 110, their worst performance ever.

The PP thus won an absolute majority and resounding mandate from troubled electorate. It needed 176 votes for such a majority.

http://www.france24.com/en/20111120-spain-opposition-conservative-party-sweeps-victory-rajoy-socialists-concede-defeat

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1. I've said several times this is what happens when NEITHER

the bourgeois political parties on the "left" or the "right" stands up for the working class. Most people don't know what's really wrong, they just know something is. So they yo-yo between the two HOPING someone will represent THEM.

Of course, the right will head towards austerity faster. So the next time the left will win.