If it was one of my friends, I would say, 'Oh, my God, that sounds like a PP, which is a personal problem.
Mr Garzon has named Francisco Camps, head of Valencia's regional government, as one of a dozen PP members suspected of taking bribes or gifts from businessmen, who also allegedly funnelled money into party funds.
Galicia is Mr Zapatero's biggest loss to the PP in the five years since he became prime minister, and is thus a significant boost to the PP's embattled leader, Mariano Rajoy, himself a Galician.
In a separate election in the small northern region of Asturias, the PP was placed a poor third.
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The PP expects a bigger win but the signs are that the economic crisis has not yet sunk Mr Zapatero.
On Tuesday, the popular petition was easily backed in parliament, where the governing conservative Popular Party (PP) has a majority.
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John Keegan, The First World War, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, pp. 24-47.
Valencia has a corruption scandal in which the PP premier, Francisco Camps, is accused of (but denies) receiving expensive suits from subcontractors.
But Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon said the government had "utmost respect" for the ruling, while the head of the Madrid regional government, Esperanza Aguirre of the PP, called it a "happy day".
Her pitch works both on discontented leftists who see Spain's regions as a driver of inequality and on former PP voters worried that their party has shifted too far right.
The result is bruising to the PP not only because of the loss of a big prize.
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He claims he will take 30% of the vote, enough to become mayor, in a left-wing city where only 19% voted PP in 2008.
Some see a leftist group girding itself to battle a right-wing reformist People's Party (PP) government, led by Mariano Rajoy, that is likely to win power in the next election.
The central claim is that documents published by El Pais are a list of undeclared cash "donations" linked to senior PP members.
The conservative PP has denied the allegations and says Mr Rajoy will make a statement about them on Saturday.
Spanish Justice Minister Mariano Fernandez Bermejo resigned last month after being criticised for going on a hunting trip with Mr Garzon while the judge was handling a politically sensitive investigation into alleged corruption in the opposition Popular Party (PP).
Ognian Zlatev (founding member of the Bulgarian media self-regulatory body, the National Council for Journalistic Ethics), presents a thorough analysis of press councils in the abovementioned publication (OSCE, 2008, pp. 45-66).
The PP leader, Mariano Rajoy, has at last shifted his party towards the centre after a long ideological battle.
The PP has said it will take legal action against those responsible for what it says is a smear campaign, and Mr Rajoy has promised to publish his earnings online.
Spain's chief prosecutor has said there could be enough evidence to investigate the allegations. but the PP has said it will take legal action against those responsible for what it says is a smear campaign, while announcing an internal audit of its finances.
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