2013第一季西班牙失业率创新高
Spain's unemployment rate soared to a new record of 27.2% of the workforce in the first quarter of 2013, according to official figures.
西班牙官方数据显示，2013年第一季度西班牙的失业率飙升至一个新纪录27.2%。
The total number of unemployed people in Spain has now passed the six million figure, although the rate of the increase has slowed.
The figures underline Spain's struggle to emerge from an economic crisis which began five years ago.
A big demonstration in Madrid is being planned against the austerity measures.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will unveil on Friday fiscal and policy measures aimed at halting recession in the eurozone's fourth-largest economy.
The International Monetary Fund last week cut its 2013 forecast for Spain's growth to a 1.6% contraction from 1.5% and said unemployment will peak at 27% this year.
The jobless figure is the highest since at least 1976, the year after dictator Francisco Franco's death began Spain's transition to democracy.