a "regionalism index" was constructed. By this index Spain is the country with the highest variation between regions in the degree of regionalism, interpreted
Workers' Party (PSOE) and the People's Party (PP). Regional parties, mainly the Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV), from the Basque Country, and Convergence
lehendakari, but lost out to the nationalist candidate Juan Jose Ibarretxe of the EAJ-PNV. On April 18, 2007 she announced that she had been diagnosed with breast