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News, February 2009Regional Elections 2009On 1st March there will be regional elections in the Basque Country and Galicia, two of the regions with most autonomy. In Galicia, home of the national Partido Popular leader, Mariano Rajoy, the right wing was in power for years until 2005 saw a swing with two minority parties, the Socialist PSOE and regionalist BNG taking power. In the Basque Country, the right of centre regionalist PNV has been in power since the advent of democracy, some times in coalition with the PSOE. In this case, politics has been dominated by the independence movement in which terrorist group ETA is most visible. Yet PNV also has aspirations to independence, or at least a very high level of autonomy. Against these aspirations, the 'pro-democracy' constitutionalist main-line Spanish parties hope to win a vote of no confidence in policies which have encouraged ETA to believe it is winning its war on Spain. We will bring more information as the elections approach. There are also elections for the European Parliament in May. For information about elections in recent years, please go to our comment page. |