Caption: Socialist leader Felipe GonzalezWITH THE Socialist victory in last week's parliamentary elections, Spain has advanced one more important step away from the fascist legacy of Francisco Franco. Not because the victors were Socialists - although this represents their first ascent to power after 40 years of opposition in exile. But rather because despite predictions that Spain could not govern itself after Franco's death without falling back into the grips of military rule, that nation's citizens are demonstrating an increasingly confident mastery of democratic procedure and alternating political parties. It was not the Socialists who won as much as it was the orderly election process.
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