Hundreds unite in Madrid to show anger to new austerity measurements
Spanish civil servants have united in furious protestation as the government regarded new sweeping austerity measures as good that contain wage cuts and tax increases for a country fighting under a recess and an unemployment rate of near 25 per cent.
The protesters marching through the streets of the capital, Madrid, on Friday, demonstrated outside the People’s Party of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy before colliding with riot police outside the PSOE (opposition Socialist’s Workers Party) headquarters.
Riot police beat protesters with batons to keep them away from getting too close to the Socialist’s Workers Party headquarters and at least 3 people were apprehended.
Spain is under pressure to get its public finances on track among concerns in the markets over the state of the country’s banks and the wider economy.
“Spain is experiencing one of its most striking moments,” Deputy Prime Minister Saenz de Santamaria stated after a Cabinet meeting at which sales tax hikes and expending cuts were okayed.
Accepting that the austerity measures were “neither simple, nor easy, nor popular,” she told the government would attempt to enact the measures “with the maximum justice and fairness”.
