The World - News from Dec. 3, 1986
Spanish opposition leader Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 64, resigned, saying the time has come for him to make way for new men on the country’s right wing. He resigned as president of the Popular Alliance party and as leader of the main opposition Popular Coalition grouping but said he will serve out his four-year term in the national Parliament. His resignation follows a defeat in last Sunday’s election for a Basque regional parliament in which the Popular Coalition lost five of its seven seats.
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