MADRID, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Spain’s next prime
minister, Mariano Rajoy, kept his silence on Monday on his plans
to rescue the country from economic disaster despite pressure
from anxious Spaniards and impatient investors following his
election triumph.

The landslide victory of his conservative People’s
Party’s at the polls on Sunday failed to lift markets, who fear
Spain could go the way of other euro zone members in having to
resort to an international bail-out.

BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) – The euro zone’s debt crisis struck again at the heart of Europe on Monday despite a clear-cut election victory in Spain for conservatives committed to tougher austerity.

Spain’s Socialists became the fifth government in the 17-nation single currency area to be toppled by the debt crisis this year. Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Greece went before.

MADRID/ATHENS (Reuters) – Spain’s newly-elected leadership must act fast to shore up investor confidence, analysts say, after the Socialist government became the fifth in the euro zone to be toppled by the debt crisis.

In Greece, whose financial woes touched off the market nervousness now felt around the world, more political wrangling cast a pall over the new technocrat prime minister’s bid to win the nod from European leaders on Monday for bailout funds.

MADRID/ATHENS, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Spain’s
newly-elected leadership must to act fast to shore up investor
confidence, analysts say, after the Socialist government became
the fifth in the euro zone to be toppled by the debt crisis.

In Greece, whose financial woes touched off the market
nervousness now felt around the world, more political wrangling
cast a pall over the new technocrat prime minister’s bid to win
the nod from European leaders on Monday for bailout funds.

MADRID, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Spain’s centre-right
opposition stormed to a crushing election victory on Sunday as
voters punished the outgoing Socialist government for the worst
economic crisis in generations.

The People’s Party, led by former Interior Minister Mariano
Rajoy, won an absolute majority in parliament and is expected to
push through drastic measures to try to prevent Spain being
sucked deeper into a debt storm threatening the whole euro zone.

MADRID, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Mariano Rajoy, poised to become Spain’s new prime minister after Sunday’s election, is a cautious moderate who makes an unlikely crisis manager for a country engulfed in the euro zone’s debt crisis.

The colourless 56-year-old former interior minister struggles to crack a smile and his huge, 17 percentage point lead in opinion polls is built more on mistakes by the Socialists, in power for the past seven years, than on his own vision or inspiration.

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s likely new leader, center-rightist Mariano Rajoy, pleaded with financial markets on Friday for breathing room to start tackling the country’s economic crisis if he wins power in a parliamentary election this weekend.

Opinion polls before Sunday’s election show the People’s Party (PP), led by Rajoy, has a double digit lead over the ruling Socialists, widely seen by Spaniards as having mishandled the response to the growing euro zone debt crisis.

MADRID, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Spain’s likely new leader,
centre-rightist Mariano Rajoy, pledged on Friday to restore
confidence to the troubled economy and boost business after a
parliamentary election in which voters are set to throw out the
Socialist government.

Opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s election show the People’s
Party, led by Rajoy, has a double digit lead over the
Socialists, widely seen by Spaniards as having mishandled the
response to the mounting euro zone debt crisis.

MADRID, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Spain’s likely new leader,
centre-rightist Mariano Rajoy, pledged on Friday to restore
confidence to the troubled economy and boost business after a
parliamentary election in which voters are set to throw out the
Socialist government.

Opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s election show the People’s
Party, led by Rajoy, has a double digit lead over the
Socialists, widely seen by Spaniards as having mishandled the
response to the mounting euro zone debt crisis.

MADRID (Reuters) – Voter anger over Spain’s economic plight is certain to sweep the center-right People’s Party to an election victory on Sunday, giving it a resounding mandate to slash public spending and try to rescue the country from the euro zone crisis.

The Socialists, in power for seven years, are set to become the latest political victims of Europe’s economic woes as voters punish them for failing to heal the sickly economy or fix the worst unemployment rate in the European Union.