THE TERRORISTS WIN AGAIN:

Spain calls off election campaign after attack blamed on ETA (Denholm Barnetson Fri Mar 7, 2008, AFP)

Spain ended its election campaign early after a former politician from the ruling Socialist Party was shot and killed Friday in the northern Basque region in an attack blamed on the separatist group ETA.

Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, tipped to win a second mandate in Sunday's vote, immediately accused ETA of seeking to upset the electoral process.

"The terrorists wanted to interfere today in the peaceful manifestation of the will of the people at the ballot box," he said in a televised address.

"But Spanish democracy has demonstrated that it does not allow challenges from those who oppose its basic principles and its most essential values."

Like not voting?

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 8, 2008 8:32 AM