PP spokesman Angel Acebes said yesterday, "The story that the PP is isolated is incompatible with the 825,000 citizens' signatures it has collected in six days." The PP is asking Spaniards to sign its petition for a national referendum on the proposed new Catalan statute of autonomy. El Pais, the pro-Socialist Madrid daily, said yesterday, "The PP won't be able to validate its Internet signatures against the statute." Acebes responded that the citizens' reaction to the PP's campaign is making the PSOE nervous, and said that their signatures transmitted by Internet are "fully valid," since the signers included their DNI (national ID card) numbers and so their validity can be checked. Said Acebes, "One of their strategies is to show the PP as isolated, that here are just a few directors on the far right and I don't know what else." Acebes added, "Two weeks later, we still don't know what Zapatero and Mas agreed upon in their clandestine meeting" on the contents of the Catalan statute. "Zapatero crossed the line a long time ago," he said.
