Palma.He came to power on a wave of popularity winning an overall majority in the general elections but one year later and he is now deeply unpopular with certain sections of the Balearics.
The austerity drive launched by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has split Spain and the Balearics and during his twelve months in office more than 3'100 demonstrations have taken place against his policies.
Nationwide 36'000 protests have taken place which breaks down at about 120 protests a day.
Madrid is the part of the country which has seen the most number of demonstrations against the Spanish government, 2'848 in the last year.
To try and bring Spain´s massive deficit under control Rajoy has been forced to slash spending with Civil Servants seeing their wages cut and their Christmas bonus scrapped. It has been government workers who have been at the forefront at the protests against the government with an almost daily protest taking place outside the Son Espases national health hospital.
Initially the Balearic government had planned to close two hospitals but they later backtracked although some jobs were lost within the local health service.
The wave of protest has seen demonstrators lay siege to the Spanish parliament in Madrid which led to police responding and firing rubber bullets. The wave of public unrest against the spending cuts across Spain looks set to continue this year. Trade unions are not even ruling out the possibility of organising yet another general strike. Last year millions of people joined the day of industrial action.
The government has said that it understands the wave of protest but has been forced to make the big spending cuts to get the Spanish economy back on track.
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