Nora's take on the Spanish presidential elections

Spain's general elections will be taking place on 9 March, and while the Spanish blogosphere has been up in arms about it, categorically citing the repeated missteps and obvious shortcomings of Zapatero's Socialist government, one would be hard pressed to read anything substantive in English.

That is, until Nora cranked out an entry which dispels many doubts.

Beginning with the economy, the growing inflation, the crisis in the building sector and the excessive foreign deficit menaces Zapatero. Instead of giving real solutions for the crisis, his Government has done nothing for months, and, when the elections are approaching has begun to offer "checks" for everything: baby-check, rental-check, etc. Even The Economist has written about the perils of Spanish economy now, when during the last 4 years, it has been praising Zapatero about how marvellous his policy was.

Read the whole thing.