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...world should take note that democracy is not dying but flourishing. With Premier Adolfo Suárez, another country has seen the way to go: that of choosing a democratic form of government in a free election...
...country that had not gone to the polls to elect its leaders for 41 years, last week's Spanish elections were a celebration - an affirmation that the long night of Franco's tyranny was indeed over. With joy and assurance they voted in Premier Adolfo Suárez, rejecting the extremes of both right and left. In our cover story this week, we examine the nation's emotional yet orderly transition from dictatorship to democracy. Madrid Correspondent Karsten Prager was struck by Spain's ability to emerge so smoothly from a political vacuum. "There...
After four decades of what one Basque described as the "boca cerrada " (closed mouth). Prager did find that many citizens were reluctant to speak with reporters. Suárez too has avoided the press, although he granted Prager an off-the-record interview at Moncloa Palace a few days before the election. Sums up Prager: "Suárez has kept his counsel and his cool. He is plainly aware that Spain has changed and continues to change, that the new look in the society is more than cosmetic, and that the new look in politics will have to follow suit...
...Democratic Center Union (U.C.D.), a center-right coalition of 15 groups, including Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and independents, is headed by Premier Adolfo Suárez, 44, who took over the faltering alliance last month and installed a number of his own loyalists as candidates. Some liberals quit in protest, and a number of former officials in the Franco regime came aboard. Because of this-and because of Suárez's own background as head of Franco's National Movement Party -critics charge that the coalition is "renovated Franquismo." The charge is not altogether fair however...
Should the Democratic Center win, Suárez says its top priorities will be 1) a new constitution approved by all the parties, 2) economic and tax reforms,3) measures for regional autonomy and4) administrative reforms, such as decentralization and a streamlined bureaucracy. The U.C.D. favors the present mixed economy (with a sizable public sector), extension of social security benefits to all, and free trade unions...