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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10499
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) eu/spain

Shift to right, war on crisis declared

Brussels, 21/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Sunday 20 November, the Right obtained an absolute and historic majority in the Spanish general elections. The People's Party (PP), headed by Mariano Rajoy, 56, will form the next government and obtained 180 seats as opposed to 111 for the Socialist Party (PSOE). This is the latter's worst result since Spain returned to democracy. The Spanish Socialists have been in power since 2004 and therefore become new victims of the crisis that has also brought...

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