You realize this is all carefully choreographed. He just reorganized his government to put people he completely trusts in charge of the Defence and Interior ministries. He has an ally of sorts in the Basque government, and he will seek to remove the only political obstacle which is a PP-aligned UPN government in Navarra.

Expect the Navarran campaign in 2007 to be vicious, with UPN running on a single point: that the rest of the parties intend to for a coalition to sell Navarra off to ETA.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman