Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero calls general elections in debt-ridden country four months earlier than expected
Reposted from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020098/Prime-Minister-Zapatero-calls-Spanish-general-elections-months-earlier-expected.html
July 30, 2011 @ 8:42 am
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today called early general elections in November - four months before they had been expected.
Zapatero made the announcement in a move political analysts said was designed to give his Socialist Party candidate a better chance against the conservative frontrunner.
Socialist candidate Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba trails Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy in polls, but a new one released on Wednesday showed Rubalcaba closing the gap.