Originally posted by Cabby44
I'd say that if Spain elected a "coalition of Left Wing parties" then Spain gets the government they deserve......
amen. The left parties in spain are risible at the very best. The new president has no character at all (it's a puppet in Gonzalez's hands- Gonzalez was president since 1982 'till 1996), and his right hand is an idiot as Caldera is (I'm not trying to put him worse than what it is. I know several people who know him first-hand ,between them some of his professors at the university, and all of them say the same: he is simply Idiot).
We will probably see a coalition of a center-left party (PSOE) with a mid-extreme left party (IU,with a pro-castrist leader) and with an extremist catalonian independist republican party (ERC, his leader tried to talk unilaterally with ETA a few months ago).
The very reason why this has happened has been a mixture of government blunders with very hard media infamation (there's a whole media group called PRISA that has really worked hard to difame the government during the last days, mostly on very dubvious or directly false grounds). There's also the fact that the PSOE itself has used the death of 2 hundred people in a demagogic, bastardly way instead of being at least a bit decent.
what we have seen is media manipulation on a gross scale,mixed with the fact that there's a party of cyinics (PSOE) who would lose their shoul just to achieve a hundred votes more for them. They used pure demagogy with the war against Irak, they used demagogy with anything they could.
just for the sake of comparison, imagine that after 9-11 the Democrat Party impeached bush, supported by the most powerful media group of your nation, and accusing him of causing the terrorist attack because his policy.
And them imagine that the Democrat Party and that media group spends all the time they can yelling the the republicans are lying to the nation, and demanding investigation results just
24 hours after the attack itself.
Here in spain, 60 hours after the attacks there were 5 arrests and there's a very solid line of investigation, there's been an exceptional work by the police and intelligence services. But just 24 hours after the attack, when nothing was clear and many things still pointed ETA as responsible, there already was a Socialist deputy openly accusing the Government of lying and hiding information.
Just 2 days before a general election, with 200 death still hot.
and, yes, they are that low.
In other words, we're in to a four year very funny (because PSOE is risible), very hard (Economy will go under, as will be work paces and antiterrorist fight- remember, one of the partys that will group with PSOE tried to make an unilateral agreement with ETA a few months ago), years impasse. After that, people will come back to their senses and vote the Popular party back...
or we will see Spain disintegrate and fall into a 3rd world status.
Daniel, lo de Ana del Palacio es una manipulacion evidente. La presunta circular a las embajadas (no hay nada que lo pruebe, solo lo dice la SER de "fuentes fiables", que supongo seran las mismas "fuentes fiables" que juran que hubo un terrorista suicida y ahora vete tu a saber donde se han metido) fue impartida entre las 6.15 y 6.30 de la tarde. La furgoneta con las cintas en arabe fue hallada tan solo un cuarto de hora antes. Hasta ese momento nadie dudaba de que habia sido ETA, y Exteriores no es Interior...y Del Palacio no es telépata.
Personalmente no creo que haya habido manipulacion por parte del gobierno,aunque si una muy deficiente forma de propagar la informacion que ha sido explotado por PRISA y el PSOE para lanzar a los cabreados a la calle. Me parece indignante que hayan usado descaradamente esos 200 muertos para esto, pero bueno, nos esperan 4 años de Zapatero presidente, Caldera ministro, Llamazares tambien, y de rotura absoluta de la lucha antiterrorista por la oposicion frontal que ERC va a presentar a cualquier intento de terminar con ETA por via no negociada.
Ya me contaras dentro de 4 años si te alegra o no que esto haya pasado...porque nos esperan tiempos MUY negros.
