Spain is also an enemy of Athens now that the popularity of the People's party (PP) led by Mariano Rajoy has slumped and he faces defeat in an election later this year.
Mr Urkullu is furious that the PP government has failed to ease ETA's journey to disarmament.
Podemos may come first in such regions as Asturias and Aragón, with the PP or PSOE winning elsewhere.
Only eleven days later, on December 30th, he brought in thumping tax rises on income, savings and property.It was the sort of ploy Mr Rajoy's Socialist predecessor, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (who preferred indirect taxes), never dared to make, not least because Mr Rajoy's right-wing People's Party (PP) would have accused him of bleeding middle-class wage-earners dry.
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.That analysis may be right, to judge by a recent open-air assembly on the economy, with a few dozen participants squatting on the paving stones of Madrid's Plaza del Carmen.
With Spaniards slowly turning their backs on the Socialists and PP, the big two parties which jointly fell short of winning 50% of votes at the European elections, whoever wins the next elections is likely to form either a coalition or minority government.
Mr Fraga's centre-right People's Party (PP), which he founded after Franco's death in 1975, won 37 seats.
At first it was blamed by the People's Party (PP) government of José María Aznar on the Basque terrorist group, ETA, which was known to be planning a spectacular outrage in Madrid.
Their natural home is the opposition People's Party (PP), which trails the Socialists by 2.5-4.5 2.5-4.5in most pointsThe Socinlists' most electoral polls.TheSocialistsheir supporters into the polling booths.
That let both the Socialists and the PP pick up a handful of new seats.
The PP both failed to win the election and took six months longer than it might have to get going.Nevertheless, Mr Rajoy has achieved more than he is given credit for.
