The Poll

EITb published a note with the results of a poll recently conducted in Euskal Herria, here you have it:

Politics

Basque Govts's opinion poll

Sixty percent of the Basques support Ibarretxe's referendum

10/24/2007

There are no doubts regarding the dialogue between Ibarretxe and Zapatero, which is backed by 89 percent of the Basques. Sixty-five percent of the population would cast a ballot in the referendum.

Nine Basques out of ten back the dialogue between the Basque and Spanish presidents to solve the Basque conflict, an opinion poll conducted by the Basque Government shows.

The opinion poll was conducted last October 19th and 20th, three days after Ibarretxe met Zapatero in the Mocloa palace, targeting to know the opinion of the Basques on the road map proposed by Ibarretxe to solve the Basque conflict.

According to the same sources, if the Basque Parliament approved the celebration of the referendum, fifty-nine percent of the population approve of Ibarretxe calling a referendum despite what the Spanish Government's opinion.

Besides, seventy-three percent think the institutions, the political parties and the armed Basque group ETA should accept the result of the referendum.

Concerning the chance that the Spanish Government bans the referendum called by the Basque Parliament, sixty-four percent of the Basques think the Spanish Government should not do it and twelve percent approves it.

If the referendum was called, sixty-five percent of the population say they would vote, fifteen percent says they would not vote and thirteen percent say they might depending on the circumstances.

Fifty-eight percent of the population think politicians must try to solve the political conflict without waiting for ETA to announce a ceasefire, while twenty-six percent think these proposals should not be put forward as long as ETA does not announce a ceasefire.

Concerning the best way to defeat ETA, sixty-four percent is in favor of police measures and dialogue and thirty percent only backs police measures.

Zapatero's attitude

The population is divided into virtually equally parts among those who think the Spanish president will change his mind about Ibarretxe's proposal after the general elections (35%) and those who think he will not change his mind (35%).

Besides, fifty-six percent think Zapatero should not prevent the referendum whereas eighteen percent think the opposite.

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