entation to serve four-year terms)
elections: Senate-last held 3 March 1996 (next to be held by March
2000); Congress of Deputies-last held 3 March 1996 (next to be held by
March 2000)
election results: Senate-percent of vote by party-NA; seats by
party-PP 132, PSOE 96, CiU 11, PNV 6, IU 2, others 9; Congress of
Deputies-percent of vote by party-PP 38.9%, PSOE 37.5%, IU 10.7%, CiU
4.6%; seats by party-PP 156, PSOE 141, IU 21, CiU 16, other 16

Judicial branch: Supreme Court or Tribunal Supremo

Political parties and leaders:
principal national parties, from right to left: Popular Party or PP
[Jose Maria AZNAR Lopez]; Spanish Socialist Workers Party or PSOE
[Joaquin ALMUNIA Amann, secretary general]; Spanish Communist Party or
PCE [Julio ANGUITA Gonzalez]; United Left or IU (a coalition of
parties including the PCE and other small parties) [Julio ANGUITA
Gonzalez]
chief regional parties: Convergence and Union or CiU [Jordi PUJOL i
Soley, secretary general] (a coalition of the Democratic Convergence
of Catalonia or CDC [Jordi PUJOL i Soley] and the Democratic Union of
Catalonia or UDC [Josep Antoni DURAN y LLEIDA]); Basque Nationalist
Party or PNV [Xabier ARZALLUS Antia]; Canarian Coalition or CC (a
coalition of five parties) [Lorenzo OLLARTE Cullen]

Political pressure groups and leaders: on the extreme left, the Basque
Fatherland and Liberty or ETA [Herri BATASUNA] and the First of
October Antifascist Resistance Group or GRAPO use terrorism to oppose
the government; free labor unions (authorized in April 1977); Workers
Confederation or CC.OO; the Socialist General Union of Workers or UGT
and the smaller independent Workers Syndical Union or USO; business
and landowning interests; the Catholic Church; Opus Dei; university
students

International organization participation: AfDB, AG (observer), AsDB,
Australia Group, BIS, CCC, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, ECE, ECLAC, EIB, ESA,
EU, FAO, G- 8, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA,
IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol,
IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, LAIA (observer), MINUGUA, MTCR, NAM
(guest), NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OSCE, PCA, UN, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIBH, UNU, UPU, WCL, WEU, WHO, WIPO, WMO,
WToO, WTrO, ZC

Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Antonio OYARZABAL MARCHESI
chancery: 2375 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037
telephone: [1] (202) 452-0100, 728-2340
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