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Spain’s next PM to outline austerity measures

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s future prime minister is preparing to outline the painful austerity measures and reforms he wants to enforce to help lower the country’s 22 percent jobless rate and its mountains of debt.

Conservative Mariano Rajoy of the Popular Party will give a speech Monday to the lower house of the legislature, kicking off debate on swearing him in as premier after his party’s landslide win in Nov. 20 general elections. A yes vote is given because his party has an absolute majority.

It is not clear how much detail Rajoy will give on how he plans to meet deficit-reduction goals while trying to keep Spain from slipping into another recession.

After opposition parties speak, Rajoy will be voted in on Tuesday and take the oath of office Wednesday.

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