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> "UA gets 15 000 votes and 12% of the whole. "

1.2% of the whole.

> "IU, with 70 000 votes (1.2%)"

This is right.

> "Thus, the signatory parties to the Lizarra Agreement have got 746 000
> votes -those who excluded themselves from this settlement only 483 000- and
> they have got 43 seats as opposed to 32 seats of those who
> did not sign the agreement."
> This works out at 60.6% of the votes and 57.3% of the seats. This discrepancy
> seems a little large to me. Can anyone give me a description of the electoral
> system that explains the discrepancy?

The Basque parliament has a "confederal" form, there are 25 seats for
Araba, 25 for Gipuzkoa, and the same for Bizkaia. But there is one
million Bizkaitars, though Arabars are just 250.000. This arrangement,
that EAJ, PP(UCD) and PSOE agreed, is favouring the Spagnolo parties,
because there is a lot of maketo people in Araba. Specially Unidad
Alavesa, who has got 2 seats which just 15000 votes.

Why they chose this wierd system? I don't know.

Inside any historical territory there is a D'Hondt remain-system.


> Those questions aside it seems the newsletter is saying 100,000+ people left
> the PSOE & IU parties to support PNV and EH (aka HB). That seems to be pretty
> significant and indicates the majority of people of people are (may be) in
> favour of an independent state. What are your readings of these figures?

Yes, probably majority of people is for an independent state, but
Spaniards have favoured the confrontational solution PPSOE instead of
the civilizated one (IU).

Inaki