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...Friday, four hours after the polls closed, the outcome was already clear: a decisive victory for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (P.S.O.E.), which will have an absolute majority of 201 seats in Spain's 350-member Cortes, up from 120 seats in 1979. The new conservative opposition party, Alianza Popular, finished a strong second with 106 seats. The Communists won only five seats, down from 20 in the outgoing parliament. In effect, the vote meant the total collapse of the political center, which has governed the country since the return of democracy in 1976 following the death of Generalissimo...
...coalition of groups at the law school, including the BLSA, the Women's Law Student Association, the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues, Alianza (the Hispanics Law Students Organization), and the Law Students Council has formed this year to endorse African liberation and to press for the University's divestment from companies economically involved in South Africa...
...legalization of the party. Some ultrarightists, shouting "Arriba España!" (Up with Spain! the old nationalist rallying cry), rode through Madrid in an auto caravan of their own. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Franco's former Information and Tourism Minister and leader of the powerful rightist party Alianza Popular, thundered, "What has happened is an authentic coup d 'état that has transformed reform into rupture...
Somewhat to the right of the Communists, the Socialist Worker Party may garner close to 20%, while Fraga's rightist, neo-Franquista Alianza Popular is expected to poll a quarter of the vote. The most fluid situation is in the center. There the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and a broad coalition called Centro Democrático are still discussing whether to enter the election as a bloc. Their decision partly depends on whether Suarez chooses to head such a centrist alliance in order to blunt some of Fraga's appeal. The Premier, however, can sit out the election...
Eclectic Platform. Behind the scenes, Maria Eugenia runs her father's party, the Alianza National Popular, known simply as ANAPO. As majority leader of Bogota's city council, she is also de facto mayor of the capital...