Posted on 11/20/2011 11:56:52 AM PST by Arthurio
Spain's right stormed to a landslide election victory Sunday, an exit poll said, as voters toppled yet another eurozone government engulfed in a deepening debt crisis.
Bowed by a 21.5 percent jobless rate, a stalled economy and spending cuts, the 36 million-strong electorate ended the Socialists' seven-year rule with a shattering defeat, the exit poll showed.
Opposition leader Mariano Rajoy's Popular Party took an absolute majority of between 181 and 185 seats in the 350-member Congress of Deputies, said projections based on an exit poll by public broadcaster RTVE.
The ruling Socialist party PSOE won between 115 and 119 seats, the poll said.
If the exit poll is correct, Rajoy will have a free hand to ram through severe austerity measures in the eurozone's fourth biggest economy.
Spain is the fifth and last of the so-called periphery eurozone nations to ditch its government this year after Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Italy.
Though considered uncharismatic, Rajoy won support from voters lured by his promise to fix the economy and create jobs, even if it means more austerity.
He vowed to make cuts "everywhere", except for pensions, so as to meet Spain's target of cutting the public deficit to 4.4 percent of gross domestic product in 2012 from 9.3 percent last year.
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after the socialist destroyed the country,
now they want a conservative fix.
Europe goes right after trying their failed socialist crap and yet we still have dopes in our bias media and around the country who still think socialism and the left agenda will work.
It’s insanity and we all know the definition of insanity .
Which is to say, practically no cuts at all.
If they are really “right wing” they will call for the reinstatement of Statues and other monuments honoring Franco.
Remember, what most of the world calls "right" is what we in the USA would call "wild-eyed leftist."
I thought we called them RINOs.
Won't matter. They are too far down the rabbit hole to be pulled out.
Wait till the conservatives actually try to cut anything, the left will be out in the streets by their tens of thousands and the public will melt and turn against the new government. We've seen this time and time again. Once the socialist disease becomes entrenched it is near impossible to get rid of it short of a total revolution followed by shock therapy to rip the parasitic remains out by the roots.
You’re seeing why America is going to end up like Greece before it gets better. They’ll keep spending and getting into debt until a default occurs.
You mean, like in Ohio and Wisconsin?
It seems maybe starving the beast might be a way to go..
Europe goes right after trying their failed socialist crap and yet we still have dopes in our bias media and around the country who still think socialism and the left agenda will work.
You are so right which is why we need Cain, Bachmann or Santorum as our nominee. If we go left with Romney, Perry or Newt we will be heading down like Europe.
By “conservative” they mean the equivalent of a moderate democrat in the US.
He looks like a slightly younger version of Jon Corzine but with hair! FWIW...
There will be plenty of cuts.
We still have an ace to play, the huge amount of oil and coal we can just dig up.
I believe the marxists will take it to the streets to fight any attempt to rescue the economy. We need a strong administration and legislature to turn the economy around. Without strong majorities we will continue the downward spiral.
The party taking over has promised getting a "round toit" much faster than the guys getting kicked out.
The only middle of the road issue was about raising the retirement age from 65 to 67!
How ya' like them apples!
A middle of the road Democrat in the US would be against raising it from 62 to 63!
I don't think you can quite lay political Left/Right markers down on what just happened.
These guys want a different deal ~ that's all.
I thought we called them RINOs.
Nope, they called them NAZIs.
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