PP warns cutbacks will ignite demonstrations

A top Popular Party (PP) official warned on Tuesday that there would be "a lot of protests" once prime ministerial candidate Mariano Rajoy "announces what needs to be done to get the country back on its feet."

The statement, made by Castilla-La Mancha regional premier María Dolores de Cospedal during a campaign swing in Ceuta, was another sign re-enforcing the Socialists' argument that social and job cuts are on their way if the PP wins on Sunday. Rajoy has been vague as to where he would make cutbacks. "There needs to be an austerity plan because we all know that we can't go out on the streets every day and spend more than what we have," she said.

Meanwhile, Socialist candidate Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba called on party supporters in A Coruña to vote because the country is "in a state of emergency."