José Domingo Posada González (born May 9, 1940), of Galicia,
SpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
[The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...]
, was a
member of the European ParliamentA Member of the European Parliament is the English name for a person who has been elected to the European Parliament, one of the European Union's two legislative bodies. MEPs are the European Union's equivalents of a country's national legislators in either the lower house or unicameral...
from 1994 to 1999 and is the president of Coalición Galega (a
regionalistRegionalism is a term used in international relations. Regionalism also constitutes one of the three constituents of the international commercial system...
political party now integrated in
Terra GalegaTerra Galega is a coalition of center-wing Galician nationalist political parties; it was established in November 4, 2005; but the name has been registered since May 2005....
).
Posada came to the spotlight in 1994 as he was the first member of the Parliament to use
GalicianGalician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, as well as in small bordering zones in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and León and in Northern Portugal.Galician and Portuguese...
in his spoken and written communications. This was accepted since Galician was considered to be like
PortuguesePortuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
, which is an official language of the European Union
http://recantodasletras.uol.com.br/artigos/1133552http://agal-gz.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2399.
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José Domingo Posada González (born May 9, 1940), of Galicia,
SpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.
[The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...]
, was a
member of the European ParliamentA Member of the European Parliament is the English name for a person who has been elected to the European Parliament, one of the European Union's two legislative bodies. MEPs are the European Union's equivalents of a country's national legislators in either the lower house or unicameral...
from 1994 to 1999 and is the president of Coalición Galega (a
regionalistRegionalism is a term used in international relations. Regionalism also constitutes one of the three constituents of the international commercial system...
political party now integrated in
Terra GalegaTerra Galega is a coalition of center-wing Galician nationalist political parties; it was established in November 4, 2005; but the name has been registered since May 2005....
).
Posada came to the spotlight in 1994 as he was the first member of the Parliament to use
GalicianGalician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, as well as in small bordering zones in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and León and in Northern Portugal.Galician and Portuguese...
in his spoken and written communications. This was accepted since Galician was considered to be like
PortuguesePortuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago...
, which is an official language of the European Union
http://recantodasletras.uol.com.br/artigos/1133552http://agal-gz.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2399. Since then Posada is considered a
reintegrationistThe term reintegrationism refers to the linguistic and cultural movement in Galicia which defends the unity of Galician and Portuguese as a single language. In other words, it postulates that Galician and Portuguese languages did not only share a common origin and literary tradition, but that they...
.