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Article: A new landscape; Spain and its regions.(After the March 1st elections)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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Lopez does it for Zapatero
Regional nationalists lose ground in both the Basque country and Galicia
IT HAS been an unhappy week for Spain's vociferous regions. On March 1st the nationalists were ousted from power in Galicia. Even more strikingly, the Basque nationalists lost a 29-year stranglehold on their regional government. Debate over devolution, tinged by the bloody violence of ETA terrorists, has consumed much of Spain's political energy ever since the return of democracy three decades ago. Has the tide now turned?
Before that question can be answered, the Basque confusion needs to be cleared up. Only when votes from abroad are counted, a ...