Rajoy's Spanish re-election plan in doubt after local battering

[WorldNews]

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By Julien Toyer and Sarah White MADRID (Reuters) - To anyone who doubted his re-election strategy, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has had a simple answer: "Trust me". This was Rajoy's message as he campaigned across Spain for his conservative People's Party (PP) before the municipal and regional polls last weekend. "We haven't seriously done self-criticism ... Something is not working and we have to properly diagnose what," he said before a meeting of the PP's executive committee scheduled for Monday.

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