Jose Luis Zapatero undid all the good work Jose Maria Aznar did as Prime Minister of Spain. When the Rightwing Popular Party was in charge, unemployment was at 5% and Spain was rising as world power again and regaining influence in Latin America. Zapatero has undid all this. With his focus on Green Jobs, the unemployment rate is at 22%. He has made Spain subservient to Franco-German interests and a dhimmi to Islam. Well Spaniards have had enough. Polls show the Partido Popular will win big in 2012. This has prompted Zapatero to announce, he will not seek re-election in 2012 as head of the Socialist Party.

April 2 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said he will step down before elections next year, triggering a succession contest as the government tries to steer Spain out of the sovereign debt crisis.

Zapatero, who said in 2004 he only wanted to sit for two four-year terms, has already approached the opposition parties to get the 2012 budget through Parliament, he told a party conference in Madrid today. Today’s announcement gives the Socialist Party time to select a successor in primary elections before the March 2012 vote, he said.

“I will not be the candidate in the next general elections,” Zapatero, 50, said at today’s party conference in the capital Madrid.

The Socialists, who face regional and local elections in May, have seen their support slump after the worst recession in six decades pushed unemployment to more than 20 percent amid government spending cuts. Zapatero’s departure threatens to add to political uncertainty in the euro region’s periphery as Portugal is set to hold general elections on June 5, following the resignation of Prime Minister Jose Socrates.

Adios Zapatero and take your Muzzies with you. Come 2012, the new Reconquista will liberate Spain from the Progressive-Islamic axis. The Partido Popular will put Spain’s interests first and focus on creating real jobs. Not the idiotic Green jobs.