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...liberal wing and form a broad majority coalition. This now seems unlikely, since it would split the U.C.D. and thus endanger the entire party system-a prospect that, in the wake of the coup attempt, chills practically everybody but the military. Part of the problem is Socialist Leader Felipe González, who, at 39, is considered too young and untried. "We lost the next general election on the night of Feb. 23," says a senior Socialist strategist. "The middle classes won't vote for Felipe now. They don't think he'll last two months with...
...over the first serious issue it tackles; elections seem all but inevitable later this year. The intervening months could give the U.C.D. time to resolve its differences. Failing that, it faces possible defeat at the hands of Spain's second biggest party, the Socialists. As Socialist Leader Felipe González told party colleagues last week: "The election campaign has begun...
...political mano a mano pitted Suárez, 47, against Socialist Party Leader Felipe González, 38, who had the temerity to lodge an outright censure motion against a Spanish government for the first time in 44 years. He came far closer to toppling Suárez than even he expected. Although the censure motion was narrowly defeated, by a vote of 166 to 152, the premier was reduced to the support of his own party, the Union of the Democratic Center, by wholesale abstention in the rest of his coalition...
...González dominated the debate from the outset. He attacked the Suárez government for its "failure to fulfill election promises" and ticked off the country's economic woes, the increase in crime and the deterioration of government services...
...Next González executed an equally deft pass of the cape. As millions of Spaniards waited at their ra dios, González soberly proceeded to lay out his party's program of government. The shocker: it was hardly socialist at all. Using West Germany as his model, González explained his main thrusts: a mixed economy with little nationalization, a firm commitment to join the European Economic Community and greater personal freedom for all Spaniards. Groused Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo: "This is not a program of the left." He was correct. In one stroke, Gonz...