2011 Spanish general election

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A general election was held in Spain on 20 November 2011 to elect the members of the 10th Cortes Generales under the Spanish Constitution of 1978. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate. It was held four months ahead of schedule, and was noted for coinciding with the 36th anniversary of the death of dictator Francisco Franco. The second term of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was quickly overshadowed by the impact of the Great Recession in Spain, aggravated by the Spanish property bubble's crash that led to a real-estate crisis. Unemployment reached record highs as public deficit and bond yields soared, with the popularity of Zapatero's government and his ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) plummeting after being forced to U-turn in economic policy and adopt tough austerity measures and spending cuts, as well as a 2011 constitutional reform introducing a balanced budget amendment. Concurrently, the...

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