Rajoy, the man who knows how to wait – Terra Peru

The Spanish prime minister and leader of the PP (center-right), Mariano Rajoy, claims to be a normal man, but the main feature that every attribute is the little undeterred and have much ability to withstand shocks.

On Sunday 26 Rajoy will again be his party’s candidate for president of the Government in legislative elections. The fifth consecutive time, so surpass his fellow Jose Maria Aznar, who was four ahead only will the socialist Felipe Gonzalez, who was aspiring seven times between 1977 and 1996.

at 61 years, Rajoy leads 35 in different public offices and the last four and a half years as head of the Executive.

This broad experience is what is responsible for making patent often and wanted to assert in the debate with the other candidates on 13 June.

“The government is to not make practical, has been learned and knowing the issues,” he said in a debate that, for him, is not a task that enjoyment, since a few weeks ago publicly he admitted that it was hard to prepare.

From Rajoy is its ability to break out of the tough questions by changing the subject or simply responding generalities without losing his composure or gesture, but sometimes it betrays a nervous tic in highlights an eye.

Corredor background in politics, Rajoy has been able to lead the Popular Party (PP) for the best and the worst result in its history, since in 2011 he won 186 seats and in December past 123, a figure the latter in which – according to surveys – will be back on 26, seat up or down.

Even so, the few critical comments garnered after winning by the minimum in December were silenced and only part of the press was censored, because in his own party nobody lifts voice nor questioned again be a candidate in these elections.

He himself says that how you can ask the head of a candidate who wins the elections.

In this condition headlining the PP came to proposal of former Prime Minister José María Aznar (1996-2004), who now maintains a distant relationship.

Although President, the impact on Spanish society of the attacks of radical Islamists in Madrid, which killed 191 people three days before the vote, led the PP was seen in March 2004 the opposition and the government to the socialists.

Rajoy then went on a long journey during which he was questioned when lost again – this time more clearly – to the socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in 2008.

However, remained in the party leadership and in late 2011, amid a severe economic crisis in Spain, won the elections and reached the headquarters of the Executive.

In these years has deepened the impression that Rajoy is a tough, according to his critics, seems to tiptoe through the controversial issues are social cuts, corruption cases or challenge the sovereignty of the Catalan nationalists.

For his followers is a masterful politician when handling times and allow polemics deflate.

discreet, married and father of two teenage boys Man, Rajoy is a good sports fan, especially football and cycling, and does not hide his preference for Real Madrid.