El Periódico de Catalunya, 21 October 2010
"Zapatero counter-attacks," proclaims El Periódico. The Spanish PM replaced half a dozen cabinet members at one fell swoop yesterday. And incumbent interior minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba has been appointed vice-president and government spokesman. So he’ll hold all three posts concurrently as he pilots a drive to regain the electorate with the next general elections on the horizon in 2012.
This overhaul, which Socialist party leaders have been clamouring for, should “win back political weight for the government”, in the left-wing paper’s estimation. On the other hand, remarks conservative ABC, this is Zapatero’s admission of his own political prostration, as he “launches a rescue mission for himself, his government and his party”.
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