Southern Watch on Postponing Elections:
At a moment when Tom Ridge is investigating how, if at all, the elections of November 2, 2004 should be postponed in the event of a terrorist attack directly before the date, Europeans seem to be one step ahead (or back) again, with today's call by the Spanish PP's vice secretary-general Jaime Mayor Oreja to 'regulate' postponing elections in the event of terrorist attacks like happened in Madrid on March 11 of this year, and to regulate them preferrably on a European level too.Posted by Simon at July 19, 2004 02:09 AMI've been paining myself in trying to decide where I stand on this issue. Having experienced the attacks up close here in Madrid, and going through the following three days until election day of gruesome and grotesteque politicizing, mainly by, but not reserved to, the Left, I think Lincoln's words set me free.
First off, I do believe firmly that the Madrid bombings were designed to topple the former PP government. Prime minister Aznar's support for the liberation of Iraq and sending troops to both Iraq and Afghanistan, the Spanish population's firm opposing of the latter, an opposition party which vowed to pull out its troops once elected, all made for a perfect moment to kill in the terrorists' eyes...