SPAIN POLITICS NEW BASQUE PARTY

SPAIN POLITICS NEW BASQUE PARTY

epa02571867 Sponsors of the newly formed Basque nationalist leftwing political group Sortu ('Create' in Basque) pose after registering the party with the Home Office in Madrid, Spain on 09 February 2011. The launch of a new Basque separatist party was fanning hopes of peace in the troubled northern Spanish.region, after more than four decades of separatist bloodshed. "The cycle of armed struggle has closed," said Rufi Etxeberria, a representative of Sortu, the first radical separatist party to.explicitly distance itself from the violence of the armed separatist group ETA. Spanish politicians, however, received such statements with skepticism, wavering between a positive impression made by the new party and their distrust of the radicals who launched it. EPA/BALLESTEROS < 뉴스의 새 시대, 연합뉴스 Live >< 모바일 애플리케이션 >< 포토 매거진 >< 저작권자(c)연합뉴스. 무단전재-재배포금지. >