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Anyone living in America, particularly those accustomed to the televised exchanges between Hillary and Barack, would have been surprised by the Spanish presidential debate on Tuesday night between the incumbent Socialist president of the government, José Luis Rodr??guez Zapatero, and his Popular Party (PP) rival, Mariano Rajoy. As in any close race, there were plenty of violent accusations flying around; yet the Spanish leaders were not afraid to cite hard statistics and read past quotations to each others’ face. Instead of telling compelling stories about single mothers, displaced workers, and war veterans, they brought graphs...
...detailed presidential debate confirmed what most analysts already expected: Rodr??guez Zapatero will be reelected. But more important than better statistics, he has timing on his side, just like the Socialists did when the terrorist attacks in Madrid almost four years ago helped propel them to power...
...issues that both candidates have acknowledged as central to this election, immigration and the state of the economy, are both profoundly interconnected and likely to benefit the challenger in the coming months. This does not mean that the Rodr??guez Zapatero administration has underperformed on these issues. Actually, the opposite is true...
...interim President, the likes of Peréz have seen their power checked while pragmatists like Vice President Carlos Lage, 56, who share Raúl's less dogmatic economic-policy vision, have ascended. Also rising are younger army generals and other Raulistas like Raúl's son-in-law Colonel Luis Alberto Rodr??guez, who is being groomed to oversee the large business enterprises, like tourism, controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces...
...call 11-M, by pulling out of Iraq, it was criticized internationally for capitulating to terrorism. In light of the clear lack of progress and rising casualties over the last three years of the Iraq War, however, it’s clear that Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodr??guez Zapatero’s decision was the right one. Spain entered the Iraq War in 2003. Then-Prime Minister José MarÃa Aznar was a staunch supporter of the war; however, his commitment to it went against the will of 90 percent of Spaniards...