A day after getting approval for a financial rescue he vowed Spain would never need, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said it was his idea all along.
“No one pressured me into this. I pushed for it myself, because I wanted a line of credit,” Rajoy said. He refused to call it a “bailout.” He called it a “victory” instead.
Most Spaniards don’t buy that. In a poll published Sunday, 78 percent of respondents said they have “little or no” faith in Rajoy and his ruling conservatives. That’s just six months after they won elections in a landslide.
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