the enemy of España
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Wednesday August 27, 2003 19:36
by ipsiphi / iosaf
is it this little old lady? or is a Catalan socialist? or is Aznar?
By now you are all aware of the problems in the Spanish state, and hopefully you will also be aware that in the lead up to the next elections the 25 year old "constitutional statute" is under review. Pushing hope to the limits perhaps you have read the numerous posts in the last year concerning the principle personalities invovled and not need to be spoon-fed.
Mr. Maragall is the leader of the PSC. The PSC is the Catalan section of the PSOE which is the iberian equivalent of the New Labour party.
Mr. Maragall has just accused Mr. Aznar of being the "enemy" of España. He has claimed that Aznar is using the Catalan worries for increased control over their own affairs which varies from the wishes for full independence of the "micro-left" to reduced funding of the Madrid government by the rightwing "regionalists".
¿Is Aznar the enemy of España?
To my mind the question raises the notion that at one stage someone might have asked ¿Is Thatcher the enemy of Britain?
Aznar accuses the Basques of threatening the "integrity" of the spanish state, one which was held to be multi-cultural but _not_ multi-ethnic at it's foundation. He lays the same accusation now at the catalan new labourists, because they "propose" different tactics and agenda for Catalonia to Andalucia to the Basque, where the PP uses a one size fits all "one nation" tory approach.
This threat to integrity is linked by him to continuing terrorism which is "identical" in nature to "islamic extremism" and "must be dealt with the same way".
That anaylsis get's support everywhere even amongst imc readers in ireland.
Yet when Aznar accuses a new labour equivalent, a regionalist a "botifara" in his native tongue of threatening the integrity of Spain, the ruse fails somewhat.
This week is the first anniversary of the closure of the offices of HB and associated prisoner support groups in the Basque.
Soon it will be the first anniversary of the suspension of the Stormont Assembly.
Soon it will be the first anniversary of the sinking of the Prestige.
This article doesn't really give you anything new, but I think the comments will be interesting. So I invite comment:
articles of interest in spanish (I know a few you read spanish)
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/51479/index.php