Archive for May 24th, 2008


Rajoy must change his ways

By: psr, 2008-05-24

Today’s edition of Spanish daily paper El País carries a story in relation to the crisis in opposition party Popular Party, talking about yesterday’s public demonstration in front of PP headquarters, asking for the resignation of its president Mariano Rajoy. This newspaper states (my translation):

    Street demonstrations, very much used by Rajoy himself over the last four years –the PP supported up to eight such demonstrations against the antiterrorist policy of the PSOE– have turned against him [...]

This sentence describes very nicely what’s going on within the PP. Certainly, those street demonstrations have turned against Rajoy, not because the demonstrations call for something different than what they used to when they criticized PSOE’s policies, but because this time Mariano Rajoy is the one to have changed his …