Jose Bono, former President of Castilla la Mancha and Defense Minister, has accepted Zapatero's offer to head the list for Toledo in the general election and to be the next President of Congress if PSOE finally wins the election.
This is great news for PSOE. Bono is considered a moderate within the party. He has always been a bridge between PSOE and right-wing voters and this time around it won't be different. He's inclusion in the party list will give a great boost to the party with moderates and Catholics as well as those in the left that are less friendly towards peripheral nationalisms.
With Bono, a self-proclaimed 'left-wing Catholic Spanish patriot', and Pedro Solbes, Economics Minster and former EU Commissioner, PSOE strategists are aiming to counterbalance the image the right-wing media is given of a radicalised party. Both high-profile candidates are well respected across the political spectrum and will help round up important centrist voters that previously could have stayed at home or even have voted PP.
Zapatero has shown a great strategic ability to hit PP where it hurts, their lack of moderation and cross-party appeal. Where are the moderates within PP? They all have been bullied into submission, only Calomarde spoke out and was forced to leave the party. That taught others like Celia Villalobos and Ruiz Gallardon a lesson, moderation isn't in PP's vocabulary.
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