FILE: Eduardo Madina seeks to lead Spain's battered Socialists After humiliating election defeats, Spain's Socialists choose a new leader this weekend to help them win back government in 2015. 38-year-old Eduardo Madina from the Basque country, who lost the lower half of his left leg in a 2002 ETA bomb attack, is one of three candidates standing. He is currently leader of the Socialist bloc in the lower house of parliament. FILE IMAGES of Eduardo Madina