Zapatero opens the door to dialogue with Ibarretxe after the general elections

Direct to the point, but without offering any blank cheque. Nothing else getting on the podium at the rally held yesterday that the PSE in the BEC of Barakaldo, the president of the Spanish government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, said that, if it wins in the event to the polls on March 9, kept the door open to all autonomous presidents to seek agreement and understanding. One position that is especially relevant with the visit of the Basque president Juan Jose Ibarretxe forward at La Moncloa after the general elections in order to seek an agreement on its proposal for resolving the conflict, but also sufficiently ambiguous so as not to involve a commitment explicit. "Besides winning, what better to do it with a smile and with goodwill," said Chief Executive Spanish only minutes later.

In a pavilion Luxua-assigned to those events of the highest-tuft the fairground completely crowded, Zapatero, in what was a central idea throughout his speech, called for voters to support Basques to "have a broad majority respect for all, to dialogue with all political forces in the Basque Country in search of agreement and understanding. "

Preceded by an impassioned speech from the secretary-general of the PSE, Patxi Lopez, who said that "these elections are not going to win the miserable, but worthy" - the Spanish president demonstrated spirit and said that "this is the party that more closely resembles Spain because it respects the identity of each people, builds uniting, tolerance, dialogue and calling for work at all presidents autonomous. "

"Working together is the best formula", he said, already stripped of the American with whom entered the compound with a remarkable behind the schedule but supported by the general enthusiasm with shouts of Ze-ta-pé, irabazi art! Or handsome! He called for it to have sufficient backing to "strengthen coexistence in the Basque Country, bridges, breaking barriers and that everyone on this earth feel free and able to defend their identity and their national flag and share it with others who advocate another identity and another flag, because this land belongs to all and for all ". Against this contrapuso the "risk that wins the politics of intolerance, confrontation, anything goes, as the DB terrorism using these four years for his blind ambition for power and not to assume their electoral defeat."

If the end of Eta roadmap Juan Jose Ibarretxe pursues a definitive end to violence, the Spanish president yesterday defended their attempts to achieve during negotiations in order to ETA and called again for endorsement at the polls "have the strong enough to put an end to ETA and win freedom forever in the Basque Country. "

In an event in which over on a permanent basis the televised debate last Monday between Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and the president of the PP, Mariano Rajoy, including the now famous girl mentioned by him in his final plea, the Socialist leader asked " Euskadi entire society that does not give any protection to the violent, after it was found, after my effort, which only know how to speak the language of death and pain of the pump. "

He explained that "peace is the most noble task, which requires more sacrifice, it is the task of the brave, of those who do not mind losing to save lives, to defend freedom, commit to the bottom as they have done Basque socialists. " "I know that we will be stronger if we are better able to definitively end the violence, to bring democracy avoid more pain and more victims," he concluded.