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More protests place in Spain on Sunday. Over 100,000 protesters took to the in Madrid and Barcelona. People are at the poor Spanish economy. They are blaming politicians and banks their country’s economic problems. Spain currently unemployment levels at 20 per cent – that’s one in of the population. It is the unemployment rate in any European Union . The deomnstrations were peaceful and there no reports of violence arrests.

The protest movement on May the 15th. It has spread across Spain. On Sunday leading protestors read a plan of that called a revolution. One protestor Juanjo Montiel, 26, told the Reuters agency: “I'm here because this is a con. I'm enough to have a job, but many don't and have chance. And on top of that, the politicians want to make more . This is not our fault.” Another demonstrator said: “The capitalist system does not , it only benefits a and harms the majority.”