Smiley Spain

摘要

Since the death of dour General Franco in 1975, Spain has been a stirring success story and it will surely continue to be so, whoever wins the general election on March 12th. One aspect of the success is that, perhaps for the first time, few Spaniards truly tremble at the prospect of a victory by their political opponents. It is a safe bet that neither Jose Maria Az-nar's ruling centre-right People's Party nor decent Joaquin Al-munia's Socialists on the centre-left would squander the gains of the past 25 years (see pages 25-29).