Zapatero's guilty conscience

The general strike in Spain on Wednesday may well have left the socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero with a guilty conscience, prompting him to renounce some of his reforms, the conservative daily ABC fears: "Under normal circumstances the government would continue on the path of reform free from social pressures, and the unions would be forced to sit down and negotiate from a weakened position. But there is a real possibility that the president once again makes concessions they don't deserve simply because the idea of moving away from his voter base frightens him. ... His famous trade union membership card ... acts like a moral mirror in which he looks without recognising himself: the Zapatero of last March would have striked in protest against the Zapatero of September."

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