Has the spectre of terrorism finally been excised from Spain?
Good news comes from the success of a terrorist-linked political party
SOMETIMES GOOD things come in strange packages. On April 21st Spain’s Basque Country voted in regional elections. The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), the conservative separatist movement that has led the region since 2012, scraped out the barest of wins, tying its rival in the number of seats and eking out a symbolic victory in the number of votes cast. But that rival was EH Bildu, which had its best result ever. The left-wing separatist party is the descendant of the political wing of ETA, a terrorist group that killed hundreds of people across four decades in Spain.
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Europe April 27th 2024
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