The People's Party, Popular Party, or Populist Party, is any of several political parties claiming to speak for the people; see Populism. People's Parties in various countries run the gamut from left to right. Translations into English of the names of the various countries' parties are not always consistent, but People's Party is the most common.
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The Popular Alliance (AP) was a conservative right-wing party founded in 1976 by former Francisco Franco ministers.
At the party congress in February 1987, Hernandez was chosen to head the AP, declaring that under his leadership the AP would become a "modern right-wing European party." But Hernandez lacked political experience at the national level, and the party continued to decline.
In August 2003, Mariano Rajoy was named Aznar's successor and was the party's candidate for the prime ministership in the Spanish general election, 2004.
The PopularParty's surprising demise was the result of a punishing electorate, political analysts said, that lashed out at the way the government handled the investigation of the train bombings, accusing it of playing political games with the bloodiest atrocity in Spain since the 1936 civil war.
The newly-elected Socialist Party leader, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has vowed to pull those troops out of Iraq when their tour of duty is over this summer and has promised to bring Spain back into the European diplomatic fold with France and Germany, both of which opposed the war in Iraq.
Then the Socialist Party, believing the conservatives would benefit in the election if the bombing was the work of ETA, accused the PopularParty of playing politics with a national tragedy and of concealing information from the public that, in fact, it was Islamic extremists who carried out the attacks.
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