According to Bloomberg.com, Europe--Jan. 14, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today set national elections for March 9, triggering a campaign likely to focus on the end of a decade- long economic boom and renewed separatist violence. Mariano Rajoy, leader of the opposition People's Party, blames the economic slowdown on Zapatero's Socialist government and calls him weak on terrorism. The government approved a decree dissolving parliament at a Cabinet meeting in Madrid today. The race is a rematch of the 2004 election. Polls show Zapatero, 47, slightly ahead of Rajoy, 52.
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