Fighting words in Spain

Tracy Wilkinson en el LA Times en un artículo que cita el caso Lindo y a Sostres, Madí, Jordi Porta (Omnium), profesora Lidia Jove , Marita Rodriguez (En castellano también), y Rivera: [A] new party ran in the elections, declaring itself fed up with language as a political tool.The Citizens Party ran a bilingual campaign and one with an attention-grabbing twist: The party's leader, a twentysomething lawyer named Albert Rivera, posed nude (hands strategically placed) for the group's main campaign posters.The idea, Rivera said, was to shed labels and symbols of identity that divide people. "I don't like the term Balkanization, because it implies violence, but they are setting up dangerous linguistic barriers that pose a threat to Barcelona's pluralistic cosmopolitan character," Rivera said.Of the six parties that earned enough votes to enter parliament, Madi's Convergence and Union took the lion's share. Rivera's Citizens Party came in last.

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