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Spain Changes Course: Aznar’s Legacy, Zapatero’s Prospects
Author(s)Woodworth, Paddy
AbstractAn analysis of parliamentary electoral change in Spain in 2004. Former Spanish prime minister José María Aznar led his political party, the Partido Popular (PP), on a platform that tended to isolate three distinct ethnic groups within the country, the Basques, the Catalans, and the Galicians. His policies also included an attempt to revive Spain’s medieval position of primacy through opposing the French in European politics by associating the country’s battle against Basque terrorism with the American policy toward Iraq. The main opposition party, the Socialist Party (PSOE), seized on the government’s mismanagement of the terrorist attack on the Madrid train station, which was initially blamed on Basque terrorists rather than on the actual perpetrators, al-Qaeda. The PSOE linked that act with Spanish participation in the American-led coalition that invaded Iraq. The result was a restructuring of the Spanish government and the election of a new prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
IssueNo2
Pages7-26
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceWorld Policy Journal
VolumeNo21
PubDateFall2004
ISBN_ISSN0740-2775
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