José María Aznar Quotes

José María Aznar López (born February 25, 1953) is a Spanish politician who served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. In office, Aznar carried economic liberalization and deregulation to prepare Spain for entering the eurozone, and aligned closely with the United States in foreign affairs. His center-right People's Party began declining in support after Aznar supported the Iraq War. Aznar subsequently caused the PP under his successor Mariano Rajoy to lose the 2004 Spanish general election to José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party after he refused to acknowledge al-Qaeda's responsibility for the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which he blamed on the ETA.More