Original sentence: In August 2003, Mariano Rajoy was appointed secretary general by Aznar and therefore became the party's candidate for the presidency in the Spanish general election, 2004, held three days after the terrorist March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings, and which Rajoy lost to a small victory by socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.Manuel Fraga Iribarne (Party's Founding President, former President of Galicia and Minister under the Francoist Regime).The Aznar term is remembered for various factors: the huge improvement of the economy, which resulted in very high employment growth and a decline in the unemployment rate from from 22 percent in 1995 to 9 percent in 2004; the tough policies on terrorism; strengthening responsibility; the improvement of infrastructure; the termination of conscription; the Pacto de Toledo and the creation of reserves for pensioners to guarantee the sustainability of the public pension system; and the National Hydrological Plan which was abandoned by the current government due to the high opposition to the project, particularly by the peoples surrounding the Ebro River
Edited sentence: In August 2003, Mariano Rajoy was appointed secretary general by Aznar and therefore became the party's candidate for the presidence in the Spanish general election, 2004, held three days after the terrorist March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings, and which Rajoy lost to a small victory by socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.Manuel Fraga Iribarne (Party's Founding President, former President of Galicia and Minister under the Francois Regime).The Aznar term is rememberd for various factors: the huge improvement of the economy, which resulted in very high employment growth and a decline in the unemployment rate from from 22 percent in 1995 to 9 percent in 2004; the tough policies on terrorism; strengthening responsibility; the improvement of infrastructure; the termination of conscription; the Pacto de Toledo and the creation of reserves for pensioners to guarantee the sustainability of the public pension system; and the National Hydrological Plan which was abandoned by the current governement due to the high opposition to the project, particularly by the Catalan independentist party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya