Socialist Workers Party Wins Spain Election
In a stinging rebuke to Spain's conservative government that supported the war in Iraq, voters booted them out at the polls today--
It was the first time a government that backed the Iraq war has been voted out of office. Incoming prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has pledged to bring home the 1,300 troops Spain has stationed in Iraq when their tour of duty ends in July.....Pre-election polls had favored the ruling party to win handily. But on election day voters expressed anger with the government, accusing it of provoking the Madrid attacks by supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq, which most Spaniards opposed.
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