It is necessary to repair the consensus on an anti-terrorism policy the previous Government destroyed with its unilateral policy of negotiating with terrorists. The pact must have the objective of destroying ETA because this end result is only possible with the achievement of a consensus. Descargar PDF

Zapatero is not only failing to gain new support, but is struggling to keep the support he has had in the past. It it is likely that he will soon have even greater difficulties maintaining cohesion among his own group in this current legislature.

Just days before Election Day, PSOE remains in complete disagreement regarding strategy. Zapatero has put his party under such political sway throughout the legislative term that many Socialists no longer know where they stand. PSOE began its legislative term attracting the anti-system vote, which gave the party an unexpected triumph in March 2004. It tried to turn towards the center when it realized that the failure of its negotiations with ETA as well as its parliamentary alliance with radical independentists had scared away its own moderate voters.

We have entered the final stages of this election process as we near our impending rendezvous with the polling booths on March 9. It is evident that general elections are always important because they decide who will be at the helm of Spain’s common project for the next four years. However, I am under the impression that these elections are of particular importance because there is more at stake this time: our Constitutional Model’s own survival, the victory of freedom over terror, and our families’ prosperity

Zapatero based his entire political project on three great challenges. The first one was a negotiation with the Basque terrorist organization ETA that would allow him to take political advantage of the group’s weakness. The second one was a territorial reform of the country to meet the needs of his independentist partners in government. The third one has been a policy to isolate and annihilate politically Spain’s main opposition party, the Popular Party (PP), by discrediting it as a democratic alternative. Descargar PDF

Spain has transformed ever more into the weakest link of this vulnerable Europe.In no other European country is there such an assault on institutions like family, the principles of religious liberty in school, and the supremacy of human life and majority religious be-liefs of our society.In no other Euro-pean country is there a government with a more radical “lay policy” than our current socialist government. Descargar PDF

In spite of the image that the Socialist Government wants to project, Spain has not gotten rid of the Islamic terrorist threat after having withdrawn from Iraq. Though an attempted bombing of the track of the high-speed AVE train Madrid-Seville right after the Madrid bombings could have been interpreted as a part of the same sequence, we cannot say the same about the plans, thwarted by the Police, to blow up the Audiencia Nacional (a special court with competence for trying terrorist offenses) in Madrid; or about the never-ending trail of ter-rorist detentions related to Al-Qaeda in our country. In Spain, like in the rest of Europe, the Islamic terrorist threat has only increased.

The United States is at present the only superpower that survived the Cold War and the only country with a global strategic projection.In contrast, the European Union is undergoing difficulties as it attempts to consolidate its integration process and to outline its role in the international arena.On the other hand, Spain is in the beginning of the 21st Century a medium power, which is gearing up to become a leading strategic country.It is in this context that Spain has the opportunity to build up a special relationship with the U.S., which on top of the strategic value that it entails enables the reinforcement of the transatlantic link.The distinctive attribute of the new bilateral relationship --in contrast to those of the past--is the fact that it is not based on the grounds of individual national interests but on a common interest to achieving a safer, better, more democratic world.

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