It takes more than an economic crisis to revolutionise Spanish politics. Bombs, like those that killed 191 people on Madrid trains in 2004, can topple governments. But unemployment at 18% does not. So the European elections, which gave the opposition People's Party (pp) a modest four-point victory, suggest. Yet the pp's win was significant. This is the first national vote it has won over Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero'srnSocialists in nine years. "A majority have expressed their will for change," said the pp leader, Mariano Rajoy.
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