This Zapatero scandal is a mess. Whether the Zap did anything untoward or not, it’s an investigation which – thanks to the uneven tardiness of the Audiencia Nacional – could take years to resolve: with another stain on the PSOE. We have seen just how the small and silly cases against Pedro Sánchez wife – and his brother – can run for years not so much to punish the alleged perpetrator as to muddy the waters of a government which came in with a motion of censure against the PP’s corruption.
Some of which, eight years on, still hasn’t been resolved.
The establishment in Spain is understandably conservative. They, whether the bankers, the judiciary, the capitalists, the opportunists and the media-whores, all live and strive to protect their holdings. Bully for them.
The majority of Spaniards, whether manipulated or not by the system, remain poor. They have problems to reach the end of the month, and trickle-down economics doesn’t work (indeed, trickle-up seems to be the order of the day). 
The right-wing doesn’t have any solutions to this, besides lowering taxes for the wealthy, encouraging bullfights and coming up with clever catch-phrases against the socialists or encouraging their White Nationalism, AKA ‘Prioridad Nacional’: a form of Jim Crow policies aimed at the minorities.
Indeed, a protest last Saturday in Madrid with the PP, Vox and Álvise Pérez (he’s a small party to the right of Vox) featured a banner which read: ‘General Franco. Thank you for four decades of security, peace, love, and discipline. ¡Viva España!’
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is an ideal character to assassinate. He has been revered by the left for his social policies (same-sex weddings), his closure of ETA (how that must hurt the right-wing propagandists) and Spain’s participation in Aznar/Bush’s War on terror. Now, it’s our turn say the conservatives (even if we must use material kindly delivered by Trump’s Homeland Security or maybe even the Mossad).
Besides the satisfaction of putting Spain back by fifty years, what will the PP/Vox actually do for their countrymen? They always vote against raising the minimum wage, shortening the working week, or improving our public health and education systems.
Maybe they would increase military spending, ban abortions or send a new ambassador to the embassy in Tel Aviv.
Spain is a marvellous country, populated by delightful people and full of wondrous things to see and do. Buggered if I know why they want to fuck it up.