| About 5,000 people gathered outside the conservative Popular Party’s headquarters in downtown Madrid. Waving Spanish flags and banners, they were protesting the upset win by Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Sunday elections that were shaken by terrorist bombings three days earlier. "Zapatero, president of al-Qaida," "Zapatero with terrorism" and "Zapatero resign," they chanted. The protesters dispersed about 30 minutes after the Popular Party’s defeated candidate, Mariano Rajoy, appeared and applauded at a balcony. |