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It was the governing party from 1996 to 2004, led by Prime Minister (Presidente del Gobierno) José María Aznar. 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 PP lost the 2004 election to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). The election fell under the shadow of the March 11, 2004 Madrid attacks which had happened just three days before. It is speculated that the Government intention of manipulate the information about the terrorist bombing may have been responsible for the PP's upset. Prime Minister Aznar was a prominent supporter of the 2003 Iraq war; Spain's support was thought to be the motive for the attack. The PP was also accused of politicizing the attack, by insisting that the Basque separatist movement ETAFor other meanings of ETA, see Eta. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or ETA (the name means "Basque country and freedom"), is the name of a Basque paramilitary group that seeks to create an independent state for the Basque people, separate from neighboring Spain and was responsible, rather than al-Qaida, even after the government knew the truth, in order to keep in the power.
The PP is the largest minority party in the Congress of DeputiesThe Spanish Congress of Deputies (Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. It has 350 members, elected by popular vote on block lists by proportional representation in constituencies matchi, with 148 out of 350 deputies, and is only 4 seats short of a majorityA majority is a subset of a group that is more than half of the entire group. This should not be confused with a plurality, which is a subset having the largest number of parts. A plurality is not necessarily a majority, as the largest subset may be less in the SenateThe Spanish Senate (Spanish: Senado is the upper house of the Cortes, Spain's legislative branch. It has 259 members: 208 are directly elected by popular vote and the other 51 are appointed by the regional legislatures. All senators serve four-year terms., with 126 out of 259 senators.
In the European ParliamentThe European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union. Other organisations of European countries such as NATO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the Western European Union have parliamentary assemblies as well, but the European Parlia it sits with the European People's Party and has 24 MEPs.
The People's Party was a refoundation of the People's Alliance (Alianza Popular), a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne for those supporters of the Franco regime that -theoretically- accepted the democracy after Franco's death. PP gathered the conservative AP and several small Christian democratic parties. Manuel Fraga received the honorific title of "Founding President" and retired from the national spotlight to Galician politics.
PP left the Conservative International and joined the Christian Democratic International . They succeeded in expelling the Basque EAJ-PNV from the CDI. Aznar's protege, Alejandro Agag -his son-in-law- later led the CDI and changed it into the Center Democratic International , lessening that Christian democrat leaning.
See also: Politics of Spain, List of political parties in Spain.
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