Spaniards voted in rain-sodden elections Sunday, all but certain to hand a thundering victory to the right and topple yet another debt-laden eurozone government. Bowed by a 21.5 percent jobless rate, economic stagnation and deep spending cuts, the first voters of the 36 million-strong Spanish electorate headed to the polls ready to punish the ruling Socialists. Opposition Popular Party leader Mariano Rajoy, 56, has a lead of about 15 percentage points over the Socialists, the latest polls showed, enough for an absolute majority in parliament and a free hand to reform. He vowed to make cuts “everywhere”, except for pensions, so as to meet Spain’s target of cutting the public deficit to 4.4 percent of gross domestic product in 2012 from 9.3 percent last year.
