Electronic media said Tuesday that leader of the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) Jose Borrell and UL spokesman Felipe Alcaraz had accused the government of following blindly the imperialist United States' instructions and of harming Spain's interests.

Borrell, PSOE candidate in the next election for the post of prime minister, said Prime Minister Jose Maria Asnar would have to explain already on Tuesday whether it had been necessary to attack Yugoslavia.

He said Asnar had deceived everybody because he had kept quiet about a condition set to Spain at a summit of the European Union in Berlin when the E.U. budget until 2006 had been adopted that it would either approve NATO's criminal aggression on Yugoslavia or be denied European financial assistance.

Alcaraz, who holds an almost identical position on the matter, accused the government of not thinking with its own head.

Alcaraz said the UL had strongly opposed air strikes against Yugoslavia from the very outset, urging Asnar not to quote Europe and evil NATO so often when referring to Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province but to pay more attention to the country's interests rather than those by the imperialist United States.

Peace Movement Chairwoman Francisca Saguillero directly accused the government of being responsible for criminal attacks on Yugoslavia by the United States and NATO aggressors and of providing the so-called democratic alibi for the crime committed by 19 countries.