2000 Spanish general election

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A general election was held in Spain on 12 March 2000 to elect the members of the 7th Cortes Generales under the Spanish Constitution of 1978. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 259 seats in the Senate. It was held concurrently with a regional election in Andalusia. At four years since the previous one, the 2000 election ended the longest legislative period up to that point since the Spanish transition to democracy. The incumbent People's Party (PP) of Prime Minister José María Aznar had been able to access power (for the first time since the Spanish transition to democracy) through the Majestic Pact in 1996 with peripheral nationalist parties, namely: Convergence and Union (CiU), the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and Canarian Coalition (CC). In that period, Aznar's cabinet presided over an economic boom—together with a privatization of state-owned companies—a reduction in unemployment and the introduction of the euro, as well as increasing...

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