Ending the pain in Spain.

This article presents information related to the Spanish general elections. In the run-up to the Spain's general election, public funding of research has made a rare foray into the headlines. Politicians have voiced their support for the country's scientists, to sign the "state pact for science" endorsed by the Spanish Society of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. The document, signed by 11 of Spain's leading scientists, calls for a doubling of the proportion of gross domestic product spent on research and development by 2010. It demands a similar expansion of the country's scientific workforce.