The surprise ingredient in the Spanish election of March 2004 was the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 commuters just three days before the vote. Thanks to the clumsiness of the outgoing People's Party (pp) government, which tried to blame Basque terrorists, not Islamist radicals, the bombs provoked an unexpected change. What had looked like a pp shoo-in turned into a Socialist bounce-back, handing victory to Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapa-tero, now Spain's prime minister.
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机译：2004年3月的西班牙大选令人惊讶的因素是马德里火车爆炸案，在投票前三天就炸死了191名通勤者。由于即将离任的人民党（pp）政府笨拙地试图怪罪巴斯克恐怖分子，而不是伊斯兰激进分子，炸弹引发了意想不到的变化。看起来像是pp的争执变成了社会主义的反弹，将胜利交给了现任西班牙总理Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapa-tero。
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