urged its supporters to abstain

urged its supporters to abstain

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In 1986 the Popular Alliance, the forerunner of the PP, urged its supporters to abstain in the referendum on remaining in NATO (joined in 1982), despite being in favour, in the hope that the then Socialist government would lose and have to call an election. That opportunistic gamble backfired. Spain did not join the integrated military structure until 1999. Its armed forces are relatively small (see Figure 2). Around 3,500 troops participate in NATO missions in Eastern Europe and others in UN peacekeeping, and the US has an important naval base at Rota in southern Spain under an agreement renewed in 2023. สล็อต