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 Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: Another European domino to fall? Spanish elections: |
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For those keeping a close eye on the Blair/Sarkosy/Berlusconi 'putsch', here's a reminder that Spain is also probably about to get 'the treatment'. General Election March 9th, 2008.
Firstly a reminder from last year what the right-wing PP (Partido Popular) are basically all about...
| Quote: | Tapes of meeting between Aznar and Bush
In the tapes Aznar asked Bush to help sway public opinion in Spain
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It is also reported that José María Aznar asked Bush for help in swaying Spanish public opinion in favour of intervention in Iraq. It has also come to light that in the meeting neither Aznar or Bush expected much to result from the work of the UN weapons inspectors that had been sent to Iraq to look for weapons of mass destruction.
El País, also states that during Aznar’s visit to the Texan ranch a fourway telephone conversation took place between Aznar, Bush, Tony Blair and the Italian president at the time, Silvio Berlusconi.
Javier Rupérez, who acted as Aznar’s interpreter and was present during the meeting is the source of the above information which until now has been kept secret by the Spanish Embassy in Washington. |
Now there's:
| Quote: | Thursday, February 21, 2008
Spanish election campaign begins
Tense atmosphere for Spanish Election Campaign which begins at midnight
The Spanish president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the leader of IU, Gaspar Llamazares, will begin their parties’ respective election campaigns in Madrid while the leader of the PP, Rajoy, will start his party’s campaign in Cádiz.
Pre-election campaigning ended with tension rising on both sides when when Rajoy and Zapatero crossed words. Rajoy accused Zapatero of creating a tense situation and blamed him for the verbal attacks and interuptions suffered by opposition members Rosa Díez, María San Gil and Dolors Nadal when visiting various Spanish universities over the last few weeks.
Official campaigning for the general election begins at midnight tonight and will continue until March 7th, leaving the traditional one day of reflection before the general election which is due to take place on 9th March. According to the latest polls there is no clear leader and a significant percentage of the electorate remains undecided. |
Bearing in mind Rajoy's close association with Aznar, I have an uneasy feeling that last election's 'miracle' reaction to the Madrid bombings might not be repeated but here's a heartening snippet:-
| Quote: | Friday, January 18, 2008
Zapatero creates committee of intellectuals
Zapatero to consult committee of intellectuals over PSOE’s electoral programme
The International Committee of Progressive Intellectuals that advises José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the General Secretary of PSOE and presidential candidate for re-election, is due to begin discussions today in order to draw up draft proposals for the socialist’s electoral manifesto. Decisions over the final content of the manifesto will be made later on this month.
The Committee of Intellectuals consists of experts in the economy, politics, communication, education, climate change, energy, peace and international relations. The job of the committee is to come up with ideas in order to help PSOE write its manifesto for the general elections due to be held later this year.
Personalities such as two Nobel Prize winners Helen Caldicott and Joseph Stiglitz are members of the committee as well as other well know personalities like André Sapir, Maria Joao Rodrigues, Wolfang Merkel, Jeremy Rifkin, George Lakoff and Nicholas Stern. |
Some significant names there - implying maybe that Zapatero's socialist government is under no illusions about the immense 'pressure' from 'central banking sources'?
quotes come from the blog at:-
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/labels/Spanish%20politics.html
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Sinking with a broadside? Maybe not, but the dirty tricks dept is in full swing.
http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2008_03_01_archive.html
Remember the PP screaming about ETA after the Madrid train bombing? Now they're screaming "ETA!!" again after the fatal shooting of an ex Basque socialist councillor yesterday. They seem to imply that the PSOE's attempts at mediation have been not only a complete waste of time but dangerous too.
I think the majority of Spaniards not troughing at the NWO pig swill know better. They did in 2004.
Plus ca change...
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Well, at least one country in Europe still has a politically active populace with its head firmly screwed on:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/10/spain.elections
| Quote: | Spain's socialist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, won a convincing general election victory last night after a campaign thrown into turmoil at the last minute by the killing of a politician, blamed on Basque separatists Eta.
Speaking to ecstatic supporters at the socialist party's headquarters in central Madrid last night, Zapatero first paid tribute to Isaias Carrasco, the former socialist town councillor who was shot dead two days before the elections. He went on to thank the "voters who have given a clear victory to the Socialist party", after a polling day that saw a turnout of over 75%.
"The Spanish people have spoken clearly and decided to start a new era," he said, adding that he had received a phone call from his defeated opponent, Mariano Rajoy, congratulating him on his victory.
"I will govern for all, but thinking, before anyone else, of those who don't have it all," he said, before signing off with his much-mocked campaign slogan, "Good night, and good luck", taken from the George Clooney film of the same name. |
I particularly liked Zapatero's dig at Bush's first inauguration speech!
Now why can't Blighted discern who should really lead our country, honestly and fairly? Can you imagine what changes would be possible if we had a "75%" turnout?
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