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Aznar slams Rajoy's policies and says he 'may go back into politics'
Thursday, May 23, 2013 @ 1:09 PM

FORMER Spanish president José María Aznar (PP) has heavily criticised Mariano Rajoy's policies and says he has 'not ruled out' returning to top-level politics.

Aznar, who lost the 2004 general elections after claiming the Madrid train bombing was the work of Basque separatist cell ETA – as opposed to Al-Qaeda – says Rajoy should reduce taxes rather than increasing them, because 'the damage being caused' by high taxes 'to the middle class' is 'too great'.

Read more at thinkSPAIN.com

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Bengt said:
Saturday, May 25, 2013 @ 12:01 PM

Spanish president? I thought Spain was a monarchy?

Isabel said:
Saturday, May 25, 2013 @ 10:35 PM

Bengt, yes, Spain is a monarchy so what José Maria Aznar was (and I expect will never be again) is what you call a Prime Minister.

Isabel said:
Saturday, May 25, 2013 @ 10:47 PM

On the other hand, I should say he is not against Rajoy's policies, but he is upset because many corruption scandals happening during his time as Prime MInister are now being shown to public light, and he expected a stronger defense from his own party. He critized today's policies but he didn't admit his own responsability in nowadays crisis.

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