Voters go to the polls in Spain this weekend. They will elect leaders for 13 autonomous regions as well councillors in thousands of towns and cities. <br /><br /> Sunday’s vote is seen as a litmus test for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s ruling conservative Popular Party, ahead of a general election later this year. <br /><br /> Amid anger over sky-high unemployment and belt-tightening, the hard left, Podemos anti-austerity party is hoping to pull in voters. As is the business-friendly Ciudadanos (Citizens) Party. <br /><br /> The two of them are threatening to shake-up Spain’s traditional politics, with polls showing voter volatility. <br /><br /> Rajoy’s Popular Party and rival Socialists have alternated national power since the fall of the Franco dictatorship in the 1970s. <br /><br /> “I hope we have a similar outcome to the European elections, where smaller minority parties got more support in relation to the two main parties,” said a student. <br /><br /> A pensioner added: “I have jobless family members. My pension has gone up by a quarte
