Spain: Parliamentary Election Date Set

Spain will hold parliamentary elections on March 9, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said. He said that he would dissolve the current Parliament on Jan. 14 and that the election campaign would start on Feb. 22.

Both main political parties in Spain, PSOE (socialist) and PP (popular-conservative), agreed to organize two TV-debates between their candidates, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (PSOE) and Mariano Rajoy (PP), on Feb. 25 and on March 3. These will be the first TV-debates between presidential candidates in Spain in 15 years since the last one was in 1993 between former President Felipe Gonzalez and, at that time, candidate José María Aznar who was President between 1996 and 2004. In 1996, 2000 and 2004 Parliamentary Elections there were no TV-debates between main candidates.


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