Spain’s Goth First Daughters Embarrass, Embarrassed By Dad Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family. The State Department uploaded it to Flickr. (What an unlikely sentence!) Whoops—no one in Spain has ever seen Zapatero’s Goth daughters before! Dad Gets Embarrassed Enters Daughter s Room According to Zapatero, Spanish law allows him to prevent the Spanish media from running any photographs of his 16 and 13-year-old daughters Laura and Alba. For their...Read Full Story
Results seen as protest vote against Spain’s José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s handling of the Spanish economy since 2008 This article titled “Zapatero’s socialists defeated by People’s party in regional elections” was written by Giles Tremlett in Madrid, for The Guardian on Monday 23rd May 2011 17.28 UTC The socialist party of Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is licking its wounds after defeat by the conservative opposition People’s party (PP) in municipal and regional...Read Full Story
‘ Socialist ‘ prime minister Zapatero of Spain defends the deficit reduction programme as unemployment rate remains at 20%
This article titled “Zapatero says Spain safe from bailout” was written by Giles Tremlett in Madrid, for The Guardian on Friday 1st April 2011 20.00 UTC
Spain’s beleaguered economy is out of the woods and will not need a Greek or Irish-style bailout despite the risk of contagion from troubled neighbour Portugal, according to its Socialist prime minister, José Luis...Read Full Story
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Conservative opposition leader Mariano Rajoy beats Socialists’ José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
The conservative opposition People’s party (PP) of Mariano Rajoy have won a clear majority in Spain’s general election.
With over 90% of the votes from the election counted, the centre-right PP won 186 seats compared to 154 in the last legislature, while the Socialists plummeted from 169 to 110, their worst performance ever.
Although the 56-year-old is an...Read Full Story
DOPING: FORMER SPANISH prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, criticised for intervening in Alberto Contador’s doping case when still in office, has questioned the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (Cas) decision to ban the cyclist for two years.
Newly departed Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero says that the ruling he’s most proud of from his nearly eight years in office is the passage of full marriage rights for his gay and lesbian countrymen.
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Spain's Socialist Party on Friday bid farewell to Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, 51, who led the party for over a decade and governed Spain for nearly eight years. The opposition party is to elect a new leader on Saturday as it licks its wounds ...
Although both candidates worked closely with the former prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Chacon is seen as closest to the man who governed Spain for eight years until December. Zapatero has publicly declared himself neutral in the fight between ...
Seville, Spain - Spain's Socialist Party on Friday bid farewell to Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, 51, who led the party for over a decade and governed Spain for nearly eight years. The opposition party is to elect a new leader on Saturday as it ...
He replaces Socialist party leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who had been in office since 2004. Under Rajoy, Luis de Guindos, a former Lehman Brothers executive and economy under-secretary, will head the economy ministry. Rajoy's close ...
He replaces Socialist party leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who took office in 2004. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) — AP Spain's King Juan Carlos, right, and new Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy talk with King Juan Carlos at the Zarzuela ...
In 2009, then-premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ordered the Garona plant to close in 2013, by which point it will have been in operation two years more than a benchmark 40-year lifespan. Zapatero's decision came after the Nuclear Safety Council ruled ...
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's former prime minister, says passing a gay marriage law is his proudest achievement. Mariano Rajoy and his conservative Popular Party (PP) won control of Parliament in a landslide victory last month as Spain ...
With Spain still in mourning, the Socialists under Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero defy earlier opinion polls and win a general election. 2004 April - Mr Zapatero is sworn in as prime minister; he orders Spanish troops to be withdrawn from Iraq. The last ...
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero [1] [xo̞ˈse̞ ˈlwis ro̞ˈðɾiɣ˕e̞θ θapaˈte̞ɾo̞] (help · info) (born 4 August 1960, Valladolid), [2] better known by his maternal ...
When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero came to power four years ago, it caught nearly everyone by surprise. The polls had his current opponent, Mariano Rajoy of the rightwing People's ...