I will not resign, Zapatero tells Spain

The Spanish government defiantly ruled out calling early elections today despite having almost no parliamentary support for spending cuts designed to combat the country’s debt crisis.

A day after getting the cuts through parliament by one vote, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s faced questions on whether he should call a vote of confidence, and on how he hopes to pass a budget for next year now that the few political allies he had left have abandoned him.