"Obamania" comes to Spain, poll shows

SpainMadrid - Ninety per cent of Spaniards welcome the election of Barack Obama as US president, a poll made public on Friday showed.

The high percentage was only comparable with the number of Spaniards who had opposed the US invasion of Iraq, which was backed by Spain's then conservative government, according to the Elcano Institute.

The international studies institute interviewed 1,000 people for the poll in December.

Those interviewed regarded Obama as the best world leader, followed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and future US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Outgoing US President George W Bush was the second least popular, with only Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez getting a worse rating. (dpa)

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