Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero; born 4 August 1960) is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. He was elected for two terms as Prime Minister of Spain, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the 2011 general election. He left office on 21 December 2011...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth4 August 1960
CountrySpain
party years people
How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan
years violence needs
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.
country years europe
We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.
thinking years giving
The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.
years long horror
Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.
against allegiance deaths dialogue government kerry ourselves peace spain war
We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.
dramatic explain goes john kerry maybe terrorist troops withdraw
Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack.
almost bush clear deaths mr occupation war
I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.
war iraq hatred
Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate
diversity spain citizenship
Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship
successful gender force
Gender equality is more successful than armed force
socialist-government inequality surplus
With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.
party socialist-party priorities
The main priority of the Socialist Party is education".
fighting essence risk
The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.