It's been generally accepted, prior to the Madrid bombing, that the Popular Party (PP) would hold onto their
electoral advantage in Spain's Parliament. The BBC
reported that the PP, now led by Mariano Rajoy, the hand-picked successor of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, was leading over the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), led by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, by 4.5%, but the poll was just before the bombing. Aznar & the PP leapt to blaming the ETA, which proved to be pre-mature, and now
called out as politically motivated. With al-Qaeda involvement seemingly confirmed as being the source-- their first attacks on the West since the attacks on Sept 11, 2001 in the US-- most reporters within Spain are stating that the results are impossible to predict.
If photos like this are an indication, and the forecasted record turnout does materialize, Aznar's party, which went along with the Bush-led invasion of Iraq against popular opinion, will get a huge stamp of rejection in Spain today.