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Why Spain is turning left

In a few weeks, Spain will hold its second general election in six months, after the parties failed to form a government.

Hard-left parties are expected to hold the balance of power and a pact has already been formed between the anti-austerity Podemos and the United Left coalition, which includes the Spanish Communist Party.

Hugh Sykes travelled to the north-western town of Zamora, to see why voters are turning against the austerity government of recent years.

(Photo: Man outside struggling store in Spain Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ )

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