Word: socialists
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...Narbona, herself the daughter of a bullfighting expert - her father used to write a regular newspaper column about the sport - does not hide her distaste for bullfights. "I am deeply ashamed of living in a country with such a tradition", she said last year at a meeting of her Socialist Party Barcelona. That has allowed more Spaniards to come out of the closet and say they are against bullfighting. CACMA expects 3,000 people to gather at their Malaga demonstration. "This is not a tradition to maintain, but to eradicate," says Moreno Abolafio. "We must cast away the cliche...
...bullfighting fans, But the end of bullfighting as we know may not be around the corner. If anything, its appeal may be growing beyond Spain's borders. Many South American and other European countries like Portugal and France maintain a vibrant bullfighting tradition - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Socialist candidate Segolene Royal fancy the sport. Moreover, bullfighting has also been exported to places like China, as well as Armenia and South Korea. More than 13 million Chinese a week have been watching bullfights on TV since 2000 according to portaltaurino.com, a bullfighting website. And in 2004, Shanghai hosted...
...what cost? Citizens and opposition political leaders alike are complaining about the toll the project is taking on the local community. To accommodate recent shoots, for example, the city's Socialist government shut down part of Las Ramblas, obstructing the locals' morning stroll and blocking access to many restaurants. That might be a tolerable burden, except that Barcelona has paid for the privilege: roughly 10% of the film's budget, it is now known, comes from the pockets of taxpayers in the city and its region, Catalonia. "It's not just the money, and we don't have any problem...
...crisis, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis purportedly scrapped plans for an early election, turning instead to Russian President Vladimir Putin for urgent firefighting assistance (a fleet of water-bombers, helicopters and amphibious planes). Retinues of state officials were also dispatched to blaze-hit regions to assess the damage as socialist opponents riled against the government's handling of the crisis, billing it "catastrophic in this season of hell." With millions of Athenians fleeing the capital for a few weeks of summer respite, such fiery debate, say pundits, will peter out. But with an election due in the coming months, the authorities...
...political scheming with the reminder that, as president, he has the job of representing even his erstwhile political opponents. "The President of the Republic must unite people," Sarkozy told the Journal du Dimanche when pressed on the DSK nomination. "I haven't asked Dominique Strauss-Kahn to stop being Socialist. (But) should I rob France of his candidacy because he's a Socialist. How could I claim to be president of all French people if I reasoned in that manner...