Some conclusions I get after my country's( for how long it will be a whole country?) general elections:
1. Terrorists can alter the results of an election. It's just a matter of how many people the kill and the proper media aid.
2. The more people they kill, the urged the people feels to seek "dialogue" with the killers instead on fighting them.
3. Only three things gets together all the nacionalism and left-wing people in Spain: their hate to America, their hate to the Catholic church and their hate to the right-wing people (or in plain spanish, "la derecha").
And now, some personal opinions on these three points:
1. The thought on the 3.5 million people that voted for the socialists in the last elections that hadn't voted in the previous election (participation was the biggest in the last ten years) was that the terrorist atack on Madrid was the result of Aznar's policy of total support of Bush antiterrorism global war, especifically the war on Irak. It didn't matter that 9/11 was before the atack, that no single spanish soldier was invoved in it. The people on the illegal manifestations on saturday at the Popular Party's buildings all though the country favourite chant was "killers, killers!" (¡asesinos, asesinos!). Aznar was the terrorist, not the one who planted the bombs.
2. The terrorist group ETA (it hurts me every time I see "basque separatist-group) has killed near than 1.000 people in Spain in it's 30 years existence. On the arrival of democracy, two general amnesty's were declared, with the consequences of more killed people. After their near one-year cease-fire three years ago, the tried to bomb the "Torre Picasso" building, one of Madrid highest buildings. On new years eve, the planned an attack on Chamartín train station with bombs planted on a train, trying to demolish the whole buliding. Hopefully, the police prevented it. Two weeks before the terrorist act on Madrid, ETA sent a van with more than 500 kilos of explosives to an still undetermined objective near Madrid. Hopefully, the police (in concrete, La Guardia Civil), prevented it. And we still want to dialogue with them.
3. The main, and possible the only, objective of the elections for every party other than PP was to kick out the PP from the government by any means. The post-election speech of the main director of the comunist party (yes, the comunist party) stated how happy were them that "la derecha" was busted-out. No matter they lost half their representatives at the Congress. La derecha was out, someone else was in. And with that, the spanish international policy was to change in no more than a day. At last we were free of Bush the Devil slavery. Now we can return to the old Europe's slavery with France and Germany, where we are indeed happier. We can now renounce to the Nice accord, that were denounced by them after it was signed by all the EU, because they thought it gave Spain to much power on EU votations, because the are our allys. No matter that one year ago, when Marrocco invaded spanish isle Perejil they look to the other side: it's not our business, it's a domestic affair. Only America helped us(but this is a bigger issue that I think deserves an whole article). Now we can talk with terrorist, we can talk to separatists, we can talk to everyone...except la derecha and the church. They are not democratic, they are a bunch of fascists, they are the worst of the worst (well, excluding Bush, of course). 9,630,512 fascists voted for the PP on the elections. They deserve no dialogue, no talk.
I've been damn proud of beeing an spaniard on the last eight years. I'm starting to feel ashamed of it.