Spain's new government will consider selling state assets including a network of tourist inns and concessions to manage Spain’s two biggest airports as the country fights its corner in the eurozone debt crisis.
The airport concessions sale, which analysts expect to see over the next 12-18 months, was cancelled recently due to tough market conditions and the impact of an election campaign.
The opposition People's Party, or PP, heading for a landslide victory over the ruling Socialists in Sunday's general election, opposed the sales because volatile financial markets meant the assets would have been undervalued.
But the PP led the previous wave of privatisations in Spain in the mid-late 1990s and is expected to push on with the sale of the concessions for Madrid's Barajas and Barcelona's El Prat airports by end-first half 2012, analysts say.