Political Parties (Balearic Islands, Spain)

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• Balears Independents Movement late 1970's

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by Ivan Sache

In the Flags of Aspirant Peoples 1994 chart appears "59. Balearic Islands (Balears Independents movement) - Spain." Green field with a large per bend sinister blue stripe, charged with five red five-pointed stars arranged in a pentagon.

Ivan Sache, 14 September 1999

I never before heard —much less saw— such a Balearic independentist flag. Green is very unlikely as a Balearic or -in general- Catalan colour for flags. I would guess any Balearic independentist flag would have the Catalan flag as background, with whatever cantons, bends or stripes on top.

Santiago Dotor, 17 September 1999

If it did exist, it was really unknown (perhaps an unipersonal party?). I think that [the flag] is from a poster of [early 1980's terrorist group] GRAPO showing several revolutionary flags like one for [Western] Sahara. But none of the 80 members of GRAPO were related to Sahara or Balears and the flags are only imaginary. Moreover, using a bad imagination, because it is unthinkable that the Catalan national colours do not appear in the Balearic flag because Catalan colors are the histo