DW: Thousands of Basque protesters take sides in Catalonia dispute
More than 40,000 people have rallied in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao in anger at Spain's direct rule of Catalonia. The Basque Country region has its own separatist movement which for decades turned bloody.
Protests against Madrid's handling of the Catalan crisis spread to another Spanish region on Saturday, as the streets of the northern city of Bilbao in the Basque Country were awash with protestors waving umbrellas.
According to the regional paper Naiz, some 44,000 people took part in the rally, which was called by several Basque Country pro-independence groups, the ultra-left wing party Podemos' regional branch and several labor unions.
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Update: Basques protest in support of Catalan independence as crisis in Spain grows: Thousands take to streets of Bilbao to condemn arrests and takeover amid fears of resurgence of terror there and rising support for separatism in other regions (Daily Mail).
WNU Editor: It was only a question of time before Basque separatists made their opinions clear on what is happening in Catalonia.
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Nationalisms and regionalisms of Spain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalisms_and_regionalisms_of_Spain
"The two most popular parties in Spain have different views on the subject. The People’s Party supports a more centralized Spain, with a unitary market, and usually does not support movements advocating greater regional autonomy.
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party supports a federal state with greater autonomy for the regions, but is opposed to total independence for any region."
The Socialist Workers party sounds like they would be for states rights.
Spain is very fractured.
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