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party founded) and rightist and nationalist circles of the still
Francoist central administration. At the beginning of the 1980s the Spanish Socialist party and their regional branch too swerved to a Navarre-only stance, paving the way to a separate autonomous community.
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and parliament consists of 75 deputies, 25 from each of the three
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was then drawn up to provide for that urge with a view to comprising all the historically Basque territories. However, the blueprint came up against much opposition in
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in Spain, who had proved a strong will for acknowledgement of a separate identity and status, even in non Basque nationalist circles. A draft statute for the
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The equal representation of the provinces regardless of actual population was a wink to Alava and
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allowed the continuation of a limited self-government for Alava and
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to establish a collaboration among them and restore some kind of self-empowerment ("autonomy"), while the
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among its members. Election of the Parliament is by
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