Election Day

Sunday March 9, 2008

Today is Election Day here in Spain. There are two major parties here in Spain: PP and PSOE. The weekend of the elections one of the previous major figures in the PSOE party was assonated. He was killed by ETA, the terrorist group from País Vasco, in the northern part of Spain. This kind of brought things close to home, but don’t worry. ETA is really good at killing only people that they want to kill, no innocent bystanders. So I’m good, well unless I make the largest terrorist group in the country mad at me, but I highly doubt that even I could pull that one off. So the results came in and the PSOE candidate won, José Luis Rodriquez Zapatero. He was the current president and now he is keeping his office. On a lighter note, Zapatero has really creepy eyebrows, so that’s always fun. They are somewhat sort of like a creepy clown, so its good that he had some good platforms because he definitely wouldn’t have won based on his looks. Anyway, it was interesting to see the difference between elections here and in the United States. They still use the written ballot style, there isn’t near as much propaganda, and there is no transition period like in the states. I don’t really care much for politics and I thought that this was interesting, so take it for what it’s worth.