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Spain gears up for a weekend election with Mariano Rajoy's ruling People's Party expected to win - but, perhaps, fall short of the strong majority needed to deal with a high unemployment rate and other pressing issues. Ciara Lee reports.

Added on the 18/12/2015 13:30:54 - Copyright : Reuters EN

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