The Socialists want Rajoy to criticise Sarkozy's comments about Spain

 

The PSOE Socialist party has called on the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy to ‘disallow’ the statements made by the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy about Spain and the state of the Spanish Economy. Sarkozy used Spain and Greece as examples of the opposite of what he had done in France. ‘France has withstood an incredible crisis’, he said, ‘the only country in Europe which has increased its purchasing power every year’. ‘Do you think the French want to be in Greece’s situation, in Spain’s situation?’ Sarkozy said that Spain is an example of ‘a country which has lost its confidence’. ‘It is’, he said, ‘the political formula to avoid’. The Partido Popular consider that this harsh and public criticism is an analysis of the policies of the Zapatero administration, but they think he could have avoided mentioning Greece. The PSOE have accused Sarkozy of using the problems of the country in a party political way. PSOE spokesperson in Congress, Soraya Rodríguez said that Sarkozy’s election campaign is not going well because the financial crisis has a ‘global ambit’. In this sense she said that it was ‘absolutely necessary’ for Rajoy to defend Spain on the international level and de-authorise the words of the French President who had linked the ‘economic drift’ to the Socialists.

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