Ibarretxe
Basque regional president Juan Jose Ibarretxe gestures as he proposes his Ibarretxe plan in the Basque regional parliament in Vitoria, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. Basque lawmakers gathered Thursday in the regional parliament to vote on the hotly contested plan that would turn their troubled region into a virtually sovereign state, the stiffest challenge to the Spanish government since the Basque country gained broad autonomy 25 years ago. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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Bah, if you carefully read the plan it's not as independistic as some politicians want us to think.
ReplyDeleteIn fact I think Ibarretxe didn't want his plan to be approved right now as he could have taken it as the electoral program in the next elections, rendering his party as the most active nationalist party in EH.
Yup, the plan is far from a cry for independence, but to the outside world it does delivers the message that there is those in the Basque Country that want a different relationship with Spain, something that the international media has been denying for the last 40 years.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with you, there is the chance Ibarretxe did not want for this to happen so soon, that is where Otegi outfoxed him.
That is the reason why the title of the post is a question and not an statement.
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