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...overseer of police actions against the Basque terrorist group ETA. A Basque himself, he seemed to be the perfect pick when Aznar made him the Popular Party's candidate for 'lehendakari', or president, of the autonomous northern region in the May 13 elections. Most commentators agreed, especially after the PP and the Socialists joined in an informal coalition to dislodge the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), whose incumbent 'lehendakari', Juan José Ibarretxe, looks a lot like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, and whose oratory is as awkward as Mayor Oreja's is fluid...
...while Mayor Oreja may be popular with Spaniards, he is anathema to Basques. Or rather, they flatly rejected the idea of the central powers stepping in to resolve the separatist issue that has been marked by ETA's murder of some 800 people over the past three decades. "The PP deserved to lose," said Basque lawyer Marta Cebreros. "They came in like a colonial conqueror...
...condemn violence. His party's leader, Xabier Arzalluz, called for a start to dialogue "once the hatred and bitterness" of the campaign dies down. Arzalluz, whose bitterness toward Aznar is fully reciprocated, suggested a solution "along Irish lines." But any possibility of talking with terrorists was dismissed by the PP. "We will sit at a table against ETA," said Mayor Oreja, "but never at a table with them...
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