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...Josep Rull, congressman for Convergence I Unio (CiU), a centrist nationalist party, objects to that depiction. "This is not about Catalonia rejecting Spain," he says. "We have our own long tradition of bullfighting. This is about Catalans rejecting bullfighting from within our own tradition because our values have changed...
...CiU's deputies are likely to cast the critical deciding votes on the initiative in parliament. Although some pro-autonomy parties like the Catalan Republican Left will be voting for the motion in a bloc, the more conservative CiU is allowing its deputies to vote their conscience. And that may just be enough to pass the ban. "There are some within the party who see bullfighting as a tradition worth protecting," says Rull. "But there's a larger group - I count myself among them - that believes we shouldn't treat the torture of animals as a public spectacle anymore." (Read...
...motive: fears that evidence of al-Qaeda involvement would drive the electorate - which bitterly opposed Spain's support for the Iraq war - to vote for the Socialists in elections on March 14. "We are faced with two versions," says Jordi Jané, a representative of the moderate Catalan nationalist CiU party. "A police version and a political version. The police had discounted ETA by Friday morning, while the government - though it opened a second line of investigation into an Islamic attack - continued to blame ETA." Whom will Spaniards believe? The Socialists (PSOE) contend that voters answered that question on March...
Although police would not give details of the July 27 incident, McNamara said that what Baptiste did on the date "was not a crime." However, she said that the Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU) was dealing with the issue. It was the CIU who issued the flyer...
...Glazounoff and Caesar Ciu, Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff...
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