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In October 1982, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party ( PSOE), led by Felipe González Márquez, swept both the Congress of Deputies and Senate, winning an absolute majority. González and the PSOE ruled for the next 13 years. During that period, Spain joined NATO and the European Community.

In March 1996, José María Aznar's People's Party (PP) was the most voted party, winning almost half the seats in the Congress. Aznar moved to liberalize the economy, with a program of privatizationPrivatization (sometimes: denationalization privatisation or — especially in India — disinvestment is the economic process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership. An opposite process is nationalization. In theory, privatizatis, labor market reform, and measures designed to increase competitionCompetition characterises a biochemical, ecologic, economic, political, or sporting activity whereby two or more individuals or groups strive antagonistically against one another for some reward. The reward could consist of: fame, esteem, reputation, or r in selected markets, principally telecommunications. During Aznar's first term, Spain qualified for the Economic and Monetary UnionIntroduction In economics, a monetary union is a situation where several countries have agreed to share a single currency among them. The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was the proposal to establish such a single currency between the member states of t. During this period, Spain participated, along with the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in and other NATO allies, in military operations in the former YugoslaviaThe Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state that existed from 1945 to 1992. It was formed in 1945 from remains of the pre-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia under the name Democratic Federal Yugoslavia in 1946 it changed its name to Federal Peo. Spanish planes took part in the air war against SerbiaThe term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts (a civil war followed by an international war) in the southern Serbian province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia), part of th in 1999, and Spanish armed forces and police personnel are included in the international peacekeepingPeacekeeping is a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace. UN peacekeeperssoldiers and military officers, civilian police officers and civilian personnel from many countriesmonitor and observe peace processes that em forces in Bosnia ( IFOR, SFOR) and Kosovo ( KFOR).

In a landslide victory, President Aznar and the PP won reelection in March 2000, obtaining absolute majorities in both houses of parliament. This mandate allowed Aznar to form a government unencumbered by the coalition building that characterized his earlier administration. Aznar is a staunch supporter of transatlantic relations and the War on Terrorism. For the March 2004 elections Aznar named First Vice President Mariano Rajoy to replace him as the People's Party candidate.

However, the PP lost the 2004 elections to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and its leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Rodríquez Zapatero was elected prime minister with the votes of PSOE and a few minor parties. He designed the first Spanish government ever to have the same number of male and female ministers

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