Deadline for 1 party decision
NZPA-Reuter Madridli | The Spanish Government! 1 must decide today whether 1 to legalise the Spanish Com- , munist Party, outlawed since ' the end of the 1936-39 civil , war, or ask the Supreme Court to rule on its case. The Government recently renounced its right to veto ' parties, but kept the option ' of referring applications for legal status within 10 days 1 to the Supreme Court. The court would have 30it days in which to reach a.‘< decision. ' i< I Spain’s penal code bars; parties which are total- ' (itarian in their aims and < [subject to international dis- ; icipline — a clause?
[specifically inserted last July, Ito keep the communists; underground. ;, But in the nine pages of! Spanish Communist Party! statutes handed into the , Interior Ministry 10 days , ago, the party affirmed its ; “complete national indepen- , dence in elaborating a politi-i; cal line and in seeking al; way towards socialist demo-;, cracy." Political observers said! [that by legalising the partvj [outright the Government!] [could anger conservative;, army generals, many of; ( whom fought with the late!< General Francisco Franco 1 against the Communists ini( the civil war. ,
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