Spaniards go to the polls in general election

 
Over 35 million Spaniards are entitled to vote in the tenth general election since the arrival of democracy in the country in 1975.
 

The last opinion poll held before the voting predicted the Popular Party, led by Mariano Rajoy, defeating the ruling Socialist (PSOE) party, headed by Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba.
 
Bowed by a 21.5-percent jobless rate and economic recession, the overall cost of this general election is 5.8 percent down from the last election, which was held in March 2008.
 

Opinion polls ahead of Sunday's general election in Spain predict a clear victory for the right-wing Popular Party (PP).
 
Projections were made by the Center for Sociological Research in Spain last month, which said the PP would become the country's main political force in all levels of government - national, local and in autonomous regions.