Spanish Prime Minister meets the public on live television

Spanish Prime Minister meets the public on live television
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By h.b. - Jan 27, 2009 - 7:18 AM

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on the programme last night - TVE/EFE

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero answered questions from a cross section of Spanish society.

The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, was the guest on the TVE television programme, ‘Tengo una pregunta para usted’ – I have a question for you last night.
100 members of the public, selected to be a cross section of society, asked the Prime Minister a series of questions, most of them about the economic crisis.

Zapatero said the economy is not just money, it’s also a state of mind. He called for the citizens to help the country out of recession and to continue to consume. It was not a moment of large profits or excessive salaries, he said.

Highlights of the programme were when the PM was asked what was his most serious mistake, and he said his statement about progress towards peace in the Basque Country made just a day before the ‘brutal’ attack on the car park at Terminal Four in Barajas airport, in which two Ecuadorians died.

Zapatero said that the Government had not ‘given’ money to the banks, assured that no single Palestinian had been killed with arms sold to Israel by Spain,

The Prime Minister with the public after the show with Izaskun Buelta in the front row - TVE/EFE

admitted that the new domestic violence law had not stopped the aggression, and said he was in favour of a new abortion law with ‘reasonable limits’.

The Prime Minister also accepted the curriculum presented to him by 32 year old Izaskun Buelta, a downs syndrome sufferer who asked Zapatero if there were any downs workers in his administration and asked him for a job.
‘He put it in his jacket pocket’ she said after taking to Zapatero after the programme.

The leader of the Partido Popular opposition, Mariano Rajoy, will make his return appearance on the programme after the Basque and Galician elections on March 1.

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