Spanish crisis met with muted popular response < News Focus | Expatica Spain: "deep recession that has led to soaring unemployment and austerity cuts has failed to spark popular anger in Spain, where the unions are reluctant to put pressure on the government, analysts say.Although May Day rallies drew tens of thousands of people protesting the crisis, they were not on a scale or intensity that could alarm the government.Certainly, they were nothing like the violent demonstrations that erupted in debt-ridden Greece on Saturday.
'The (Spanish) trade unions have been quiet for the past several years, and now it's difficult to get the engines started,' said Cayo Laro, the secretary general of the United Left coalition.Spain suddenly found itself in recession in late 2008 after several years of strong economic growth based on its booming property sector.Since then, any possible motives for public anger have grown steadily."
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