20111120 ELECTION DAY PROTEST SPAIN { 9 images } Created 1 Jan 2012
Protesters burn rag dolls depecting Spain's opposition Partido Popular (PP) party leader Mariano Rajoy and Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba at the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid on November 20, 2011, after the first results of the general election were announced. Spain's right stormed to its biggest election win ever, unleashing dancing in the street by voters desperate for an end to soaring unemployment and a eurozone debt storm.Mariano Rajoy, the bearded 56-year-old leader of the conservative Popular Party, literally jumped for joy as he proclaimed victory. ( Pablo Blazquez Dominguez)