Spanish European Elections 2009 

Spanish Partido Popular (Popular Party) opposition candidate for European Elections, Jaime Mayor Oreja (2nd), accompanied by María Dolores de Cospedal, the General Secretary of Popular and other activists, celebrating PP had beaten PSOE (Socialist Party) at PP headquarters in Madrid on June 7, 2009. The political party got 42.2 percent of votes, beating the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE), which won 38.5 percent of votes. ALAMY\Ervin Sarkisov