Zapatero avoids his defense of amnesty in the Galician campaign to focus on the economy and social issues: "Don't they ever talk about this?". Zapatero has tiptoed around the amnesty, although he has stressed that the PSOE is the only party capable of dialogue, understanding, uniting, reconciling with a desire for shared coexistence.

The comparison of the riots after the sentencing of the process with terrorism has also disfigured the leader of the opposition in Congress.