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| | Articles - Manuel Fraga Iribarne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The party was ignored in its first years, but after the 1982 crisis and breakup of the Democratic Centre Union, the moderate-conservative party which had won the first two democratic presidential elections, AP became the second party in Spain, and Fraga was considered Leader of the Opposition to the Socialist government. |
 | | Nevertheless, the Spanish Socialist Workers Party was enjoying great popularity and an absolute majority winning strike (in the 1982, 1986, and 1989 elections), as AP and its president were generally viewed as too reactionary to be an alternative. |
 | | Subsequently, in the autonomous elections of 2005, Fraga and the PPdeG lost their absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia, and a coalition government of PSdeG and BNG was formed with socialist Emilio Pérez Touriño as the new president. |
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