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Spain gets ready to change course (Photo: cuellar)

Spanish elections: 5th EU government to fall due to crisis

With markets putting Spanish bonds in the cross-hairs, voters dismayed by the country's economic situation are expected to eject the incumbent government in parliamentary elections on Sunday (20 November).

Official opinion polls indicate a landslide victory for the opposition conservative People's Party (PP) who are set to win an absolute majority of anywhere between 190 and 195 places in the 350-seat lower house - their best result ever.

The incumbent Socialist Party (PSOE), in p...

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