Spain’s incoming and outgoing prime ministers have met secretly on the debt crisis, trying to quickly address the economic crisis walloping Spain and the 17-nation eurozone. An official from the Popular Party, which won Sunday’s general election, said its leader Mariano Rajoy conferred for two hours with acting Premier Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Wednesday. The meeting was unannounced. The official spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity in line with party policy. Some meeting had been expected following Sunday’s landslide election victory for the conservative Popular Party, which ousted the Socialist government after nearly seven years in power. But it was silently moved up to Wednesday as Spain’s rising borrowing costs and other economic woes give no hint of abating. Rajoy is due to be sworn in as prime minister in mid-December, but Zapatero who will represent Spain at an EU summit on Dec. 9.
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