Social Democrats Pave Way for Return of Right-Wing Popular Party in Spain
Submitted on November 22, 2011
By Paul Mitchell - WSWS
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, [Spain's social democrats] imposed savage spending cuts, including a 15-billion-euro austerity package, wage cuts of 15 percent and attacks on pensions. This is under conditions of widespread hardship and unemployment levels close to five million...This even enabled the [Popular Party] to pose as an opponent of cuts, if only by remaining silent about its own intentions.
