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Spanish Prime Minister uses the Crisis word
By h.b. - Jul 9, 2008 - 7:54 AM
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Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has finally used the ‘crisis’ word referring to the current economic situation.
Speaking in an interview on Antena Tres TV last night, the Prime Minister said ‘During this crisis, there will be many people who have no difficulty at all’.
It comes after weeks of Zapatero denying that there was a crisis preferring to use expressions such as the ‘harsh adjustment of the economy’. Zapatero refused to enter into a debate on the term, despite the insistence of the programme’s three presenters.
During the programme the Prime Minister also revealed that he had not ticked the box on his income tax form to send money to the Catholic Church, but that he respected the people who chose to do so.
He also said that the plans from Juan José Ibarretxe to hold a referendum on self-determination in the Basque Country was a ‘pure election strategy’.
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