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« on: August 21, 2011, 09:59:02 PM » |
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I am not sure, Navarra could be called "ubnormally left-wing". Navarra is conservative - but, at the same time, it has a very strong idenity. The place does have a very strong ID. It's the last part to be absorbed into Spain as we know it, it has the ancient Fuero tradition and it has always been recognized as an Autonomous ("Foral") land: it is the only territory to have preserved this status, at least nominally, even under Franco. Notably, even the main right-wing party there (UPN) is strongly regionalist and separate from (though frequently allied with) the pan-Spanish PP. Regionalism in Navarra is not a left-wing feature. When you add the Basque element in the North, the two "non-Spanish" identities are bound to have allegiance of a very significant proportion of the population.
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