Posted on 12/31/2004 9:51:33 PM PST by Kitten Festival
One would like to think of Spain's repulsive Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, as just an unpleasant byproduct of last March's terrible terrorist attacks on Madrid commuter trains. Zapatero's only there because Spain's traumatized voters temporarily lost their senses in an election held just days after huge terror attacks and unexpectedly voted him in.
But he's rapidly shaping up as something more nefarious than merely Jacques Chirac's faithful poodle. Politics are taking some strange disorienting directions in Spain now as a result of Zapatero's radical leftist government.
Thursday, Spain's Basque Parliament voted 39-35 to scale back ties to Madrid, paving the way for a full referendum on independence. No one expected this measure to pass, and until now, the Basque independence movement was thought to be on its last legs.
But it passed under Zapatero. There's one group that's happy about this: Spain's Basque ETA terrorists. The parliamentary group that pushed these measures through is closely aligned with the ETA as its political arm.
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well, their new PM has ended the divide in the Basque region by making them all lean towards seperatism. lol.
Subconsciously, I think they are trying to get away from him!
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