I'm thrilled by the election result in Spain. Not because I trust one side more than the other, but because it shows that occasionally voters might not forget every lie and every abuse after all. After all, very large parts of the Spanish population were against the Iraq War, yet Spain still took a clearly pro-USA position in it. Surely this will have been brought back to mind again through the controversy over the presumption of guilt in the Madrid attacks.
In a commentary on the radio this morning, the commentator suspected that precisely the stance of the Spanish government on the Madrid attacks, particularly its information policy and insistence on assigning blame to ETA, was likely one of the essential factors.
At Wortfeld you can find the original article.