00:00The housing crisis has driven thousands of people onto the streets of Spain
00:04during the country's first general strike in 14 years.
00:08Poor weather conditions were not enough to deter demonstrators
00:11who chanted and waved keys in the air as they protested the country's housing crisis.
00:34Young people among those most affected by a crisis that has caused rents to skyrocket by about 80% over
00:42the last decade,
00:43while wages haven't kept pace.
00:45The demands are directed at regional, local and national governments of various political stripes that have failed to take action.
00:52This is a bailout against rentism, rentists, the patronal, and governments, all governments.
00:59And there is also the central government, this progressive government,
01:03who has left a lot of desire, and that their housing policy has been unfair
01:06and has also attracted us to this place, as the governments of the popular party had done before.
01:12The day was also marked by incidents in Madrid and Barcelona,
01:16where police charged demonstrators and clashes broke out between protesters and officers.
01:22In both cities, riot police charged groups of hooded individuals who threw fireworks at the officers.
01:2870 people were arrested across the country and police recorded approximately 1,500 incidents.
01:35For their part, labor unions consider the protest a success.
01:39From Madrid, we told us some protests that are being produced throughout Spain,
01:43although in some areas they have not been produced due to the drought that affects the Península Ibérica.
01:48These protests are being produced in the pre-campaign of the 29th of November.
01:53That is why they want to place in the center of the political debate,
01:56the housing, the salaries and a right life.
01:59Juan Carlos de Santos, from Madrid, for Euronews.
02:03This is the end of the day.
02:05This is the end of the day.
02:06This is the end of the day.
