Volume 24, Number 13 · August 4, 1977
Spain: Who Really Won?
By Barbara Probst Solomon
'Spain itself has won her new election'—so went the euphoric slogan on June 15. The Spaniards had not only brought off their first free vote in forty years but had satisfied their suppressed hankering for the new, the modern, the young. Juan Carlos, at thirty-nine, is a young king; President Adolfo Suárez—whose Center coalition (UCD) won with the slogan 'vote Suárez, vote Center'—is forty-four. Felipe González, the Socialist leader of the opposition, is only thirty-five.
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