Zapatero Confesses Tension is Needed to Win the Elections

Gabilondo had finalized the friendly interview with Zapatero. Before saying goodbye, the reporter of Cuatro asked the president: "What about the opinion surveys?". Zapatero displayed his well-known mood in his answer: "Well, it is suitable for us that there be tension ". We ask ourselves whether it was enough tension for the president of the government the aggression to Maria San Gil [a right wing politician].

(Libertad Digital) Open microphones have given more than a headache to politicians. In this occasion, it would have cost the president of the Government his resignation in any democracy. After the interview the past Monday with Gabilondo, the Cuatro news anchor chatted with Zapatero and wanted to know how the surveys went. He probably wasn’t satisfied with the answers of the president, because he had asked for them several times.

Thinking that no longer were the microphones recording, Gabilondo asked Zapatero:

- Gabilondo: What about the opinion surveys?
- Zapatero: Well...
- Gabilondo: Without problems...
- Zapatero: What happens is that it is suitable for us that there be tension.

This conversation was within the cuts that sent Cuatro to mass media that were to broadcast the interview.

Both Zapatero and Gabilondo are old buddies since 3/11 itself when the first began calling the newspaper’s directors to tell and the second to broadcast through SER radio channel that there were suicide bombers in the attacked trains.

Although it was all a lie, as the finalization of the autopsies four hours later showed, -remaining 3/11 as an attack with no Islamic characteristics-, it caused great harm to the right wing popular government, contributing vastly to a spreading of distrust that would finally cost them the National Elections.

We should not forget either, this big lie was preceded by a vast operation of disinformation, in which the terrorist of ETA and Nationalist and Socialists politicians contributed to keep the Spanish public opinion under the constant threat of an imminent attack.

We must also remember that, being true that 3/11 is not an attack with Islamic characteristics, it has a lot of them in common with the Bologna massacre and other indiscriminate attacks in Italy against civilians by secret structures in order to manipulate the public opinion between 1969 and 1984, during the so-called Strategy of Tension.

You mean there was a 311 conspiracy by the Socialists?

BTW: Why isn't Felipe Gonzalez in jail? Why does the conservative Mayor of Madrid allow aggressive prostitution (had several underaged African gals grabbing my arm) go on in the Puerto del Sol, which is in THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY'S MAIN TOURIST DISTRICT?

Despite all this, Spain is my favorite country in Europe.

An unexpected endorsement from Zapatero: he needs tension indeed.

Gabilondo must be not very satisfied with his flamant new TV channel conceded by Zapatero, maybe he expected to be the one and only, and not that his boss favours also others. He worked hard to be unique, since 3/11 many call him Goebbelslondo and ask him on the streets: “where are the suicides?”. He confessed he was tired of the question.

Not all the Socialists. Probably only high rank officers from the Catalonian Socialist Party, PSC.

They carried the coup, and the rest of the party could not afford anything else but to cover it up, or bust.

BTW, the so-called conservative mayor of Madrid is an infiltrate agent of the Socialist party.

A good way to keep Spaniards under tension has been the regional Nationalist parties, always asking for more money and privileges over the rest of us. The electoral campaigns are centered on such proposals so the real problems of the Spaniards (low income, political corruption, inoperant justice, etc) are left in a second position.

María San Gil, for instance, was aggreded by Nationalists from Galicia.

This usual tactic inside the Spanish Strategy of Tension has also been utilized recently in order to make the Socialist party regain some prestige before the average Spaniard after the negotiations with ETA.

Last September, Catalonian Nationalists burnt a picture of the king, which is forbidden by Spanish law. The government took advantage of that showing a tough line against regional Nationalists, a tough line unseen in three and a half years.

The burning of the first picture was carried out a few hundred meters from where the king was, well inside the security perimeter. Reporters were ready to take the picture.

It was all a staging.

We should not forget that the same Catalonian regional Nationalists that burnt a picture of the king inside the security perimeter and in front of ready-to-take-the-picture reporters, contribuited to the 2004 National Election campaign with a meeting with the leaders of ETA, a meeting leaked by the Spanish Secret Service, that polarized the public opinion a few weeks before 3/11.

At this point, one cannot but conclude, that most regional Nationalist parties if not all, are a way of tensioning the public opinion to avoid talking on the real issues that affect Spaniards, and probably they are controlled in some way or another, by secret structures.

The fact that new of such parties are popping up in regions where the right wing popular party is in the government and their funding is undisclosed, contributes to such idea.

Also, a relatively novel way of tensioning the public opinion this year has been a confrontation with the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has adopted a more beligerant approach and they own a radio news channel that dares to critize this government.

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