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Fake electoral posters showing the faces of the Spanish bank presidents Angel Ron, Pedro Guerrero, Francisco Gonzalez, Emilio Botin, Jose Maria Arias y Antonio Basagoiti, from left to the right, are seen on a wall near Catalunya square in Barcelona city, Spain, Saturday Nov. 12, 2011.Emilio Morenatti

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A man walks past electoral posters of Prime ministerial candidate Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol) and Spain's centre-right People's Party (Partido Popular) leader Mariano Rajoy in Camas, next to Seville November 16, 2011.Marcelo del Pozo

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Demonstrators protest in the centre of Madrid on November 17, 2011 against cuts in public education spending imposed by the Socialist government to stabilize the debt-burdened nation's finances.DOMINIQUE FAGET

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Juan Manuel Viedma, 27, an unemployed man who collects aluminium from garbage containers to sell it, walks past electoral posters of Prime ministerial candidate Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba (L) of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol) and Spain's centre-right People's Party (Partido Popular) leader Mariano Rajoy in the Andalusian capital of Seville November 15, 2011.Marcelo del Pozo

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