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Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Wednesday that he would rather please the Spanish public than he would President Bush.
“Between pleasing Bush and doing what Spanish people want, I will go for what Spaniards want, and you [the Popular Party] are, naturally, within your rights to decide to please the U.S. president,” Zapatero said.
The remark came in a heated debate in parliament between Zapatero and the conservative Popular Party leader Mariano Rajoy over the state of Spain a year into Zapatero’s Socialist government.
The Popular Party solidly backed Bush on the Iraq war.
