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To: energyplay who wrote (47380)	3/15/2004 3:32:17 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 74559

Re: Do you get the feeling the Socialists did not really expect to win I don't know enough about Spanish politics to comment intelligently. One thing that did make a difference, according to IndyMedia Madrid, was that there was a large number of alienated youth who had been expected to boycott the election because they felt that PSOE, the Socialist Party, was a sell-out to the corporate interests. This group (who were the core of the February 15, 2003 anti-war protestors) came out in force, banging pots & pans and hurling invective at the lying PP government across Spain on Saturday and Sunday and drove up the vote turnout.

To: energyplay who wrote (47380)	3/15/2004 3:56:09 PM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Respond to of 74559

Strange elections in Spain indeed. From Zapatero's interventions on TV it appears that the whole party was asleep in the opposition and has no concrete governing plan. What bothers me most is: - the Nunca Mas movement (Nunca Mas = Never Again) which was an opposition born in Galicia when Aznar decided to sink the oil tanker Prestige (which polluted the Atlantic from Portugal to France and continues to lose oil). Some years ago, a PM would have been forced to retire. - the wide opposition of Spanish people against the non-UN backed pre-emptive war on Irak. If the PSOE was running for elections, they could have based the campaign on those pillars. Instead the PP was credited to win.