2407|SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY (XIII)

— Evaluation of the political situation of the Basque Country, current and retrospective to four years. — More important problems in the Basque Country. — Political party that, he believes, can better solve the problems in the Basque Country. — Preference for territorial organisation of the State in Spain. Preference for the Basque Country. — Degree of agreement with different phrases on the development of the State of Autonomies. — Evaluation of the benefit for Spain of the creation and development of the State of Autonomies. — Evaluation of the functioning of the State of Autonomies. — Assessment of the existence of an autonomous government in the Basque Country. — Preferred term to refer to the Basque Country. Reasons why he thinks it’s a nation. — Scale of nationalist sentiment. — Regionalist sentiment. — Concept of Spain. — Place of birth of the interviewee and the parents of the interviewee. If you were born outside the Basque Country: since when he resides in the Basque Country. — Mother tongues. — Level of knowledge of Basque: he understands it, speaks it fluently, reads it or writes it correctly. — Language in which he received teaching at school. — Language used in different situations: at home, with friends, when shopping, talking on the phone, on the street, at work or school, and when you go to a Public Administration office. — Language in which you read the press, watch TV or listen to the radio. — Feeling about the proposal of the right to self-determination in the Basque Country. — Evaluation of the attitude of the citizens of the Basque Country towards the proposals of self-determination. Personal attitude. — Opinion on how the independence of the Basque Country would affect the standard of living. — Opinion on the evolution of violence in the Basque Country in the last three years, compared to that that existed before the ETA truce. — Degree of personal concern about ETA terrorism and acts of street violence. — Assessment of the anti-terrorist pact signed by the PP and the PSOE. — Degree of support for the mobilisations against ETA that are taking place in the Basque Country. — Opinion on the attitudes of people around them towards violent groups and towards ETA. — Degree of agreement with the way in which the Basque Government is dealing with the problem of street violence and terrorism. — Degree of agreement with the legal reforms adopted by the central government to combat street violence in the Basque Country. — Opinion on the influence of ETA’s terrorist actions on the economic and political situation in the Basque Country. — Degree of trust that inspires you: the Lehendakari Juan José Ibarretxe, the Minister of the Interior and possible candidate for Lehendakari for the PP Jaime Mayor Oreja and the leader of the PSOE and candidate for Lehendakari Nicolás Redondo Terreros. — Evolution, in one year, of his opinion on Basque political parties: PNV, PP, PSE/EE, HB, EA, IU/EB and AU. — Political party that best defends the interests of the Basque Country, better represents the ideas of people like you, inspires you more confidence, is more united, has better leaders in the Basque Country and is better able to govern the Basque Country. — Knowledge and scale of valuation of political leaders of the Basque Country. — Political leader who would prefer to be the next Lehendakari after the elections to the Basque Parliament. — Vote memory in the last regional elections of 1998. — Intention to vote in regional elections. — Political party that I would prefer to win the next elections to the Basque Parliament. Government Pact that would prefer to be carried out in the event that no party or coalition obtained a majority to form a government. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee.