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Socialists call Mariano Rajoy a liar as he changes his mind on investiture vote
By h.b.
Mar 25, 2008 - 6:12 PM

The leaking of an internal document from the Socialist Party has called the leader of the Partido Popular opposition, Mariano Rajoy, a liar, before the new parliamentary legislature has started. The four sheet document is headed ‘Mariano Rajoy’s word is worth little’, and was drawn up for internal party distribution.

During the election campaign and in one of the televised debates Rajoy said that in the case that he lost the election he would abstain when it came to vote to invest the new Prime Minister, and he challenged Zapatero to give him a similar undertaking. Now however he has changed his mind, and conditioned his party’s abstention in the vote to what is included in Zapatero’s new programme for government.

The internal document from the Socialists comments ‘True to his style of using falsity as the axis of his political performance, Rajoy has forgotten his undertaking, because today he said ‘blindly nobody gives their vote, not in favour, not against and not even abstention’.

There has been some other political news. The leader of the Catalan Republican Party, and deputy president of the Generalitat Catalan regional government, Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, has confirmed that he will not be standing for re-election as party leader at the next party congress.
Joan Puigcercós has confirmed that he will now be standing as a candidate to preside the ERC party.(See video below)

Meanwhile in the Galician parliament the ex President of the Xunta, Galician regional government, Manuel Fraga, has been chosen as a Senator. The curious thing about the vote was that Fraga’s own party, the Partido Popular did not vote for him, preferring to issue null votes in protest that they have only been granted one and not two senators.