Whilst the present Prime Minister was in opposition, he roundly criticised the then Leader of the Government, Sr. Zapatero, for using the official aircraft on party business; i.e., using an aircraft set aside for official state affairs and not such business as attending party conferences, for example. Yet barely ten months after taking up the post of Head of the Government, Mariano Rajoy has been doing precisely the same himself.
Prime Minister Rajoy used the governmental Flacon 900 to fly from Brussels, where he had been assisting a European Council meeting, to Vigo in Galicia to participate in two party rallies as part of the regional elections there. So what happened between his criticism of Zapatero in May 2009, where he described the PM as “arrogant” for using this aircraft for precisely the same thing, and his inappropriate use of it now?