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...erected over the center stage, that enabled the crowd to see the candidate's face from half a mile away. Dressed in a gray flannel suit and sporting fashionably long hair, González called the election "a plebiscite, which confronts the people with a choice between a Socialist government or a vacuum, because no other serious alternative has been offered to the citizens of Spain...
Spain's other major conservative stronghold, the business community, was cool. José María Cuevas, secretary-general of the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Organizations, said that while businessmen "do not agree with some of the Socialist plans," they sought "a sincere dialogue with the new government, because this is a fundamental of an employers' organization." Some businessmen expressed grave reservations at the prospect of a Socialist regime. Warned José Antonio Segurado, vice president of the employers' confederation: "You will see, after they try to spend too much to produce jobs they cannot deliver...
...most intractable opponent for González's untested team may prove to be the economy, which will give him little room to maneuver in carrying out Socialist programs. A report issued by the Bank of Spain last week outlined an austere economic stabilization plan that includes wage limitations and a tighter monetary and fiscal policy. Most economists feel that the Socialists have little choice but to accept such measures. But in the flush of the Socialists' victory, González and his fellow moderates may come under heavy pressure from their left wing to launch radical economic...
Spain's best-known and best-liked politician, now the Prime Minister-elect, is universally called by his first name. It thunders from the throats of thousands of supporters at campaign rallies, and it is even heard on the tongues of such European Socialist leaders as West Germany's Willy Brandt and French President François Mitterrand. "Everybody calls me Felipe. Everywhere," acknowledges Felipe González, 40, the handsome, confident leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (P.S.O.E.), flashing his famous smile...
...expulsion in 1964 of two prominent members, Writer Jorge Semprun and Marxist Economic Theorist Fernando Claudin, for breaches of party discipline. González realized his freedom-loving mind could never fit into so narrow a mold. Says he: "Claudin and Semprun are responsible for my being a Socialist today, not a Communist." González joined the party's youth wing, the Young Socialists, at a time when all political parties were banned and membership could result in a jail term. After earning his degree in 1966, he became a labor lawyer in Seville...