"WE ARE all in this together", runs the line from Britain's ruling Conservatives seeking support for their policies of fiscal retrenchment.
The mainstream parties in Madrid— the ruling conservatives of the People's Party PPP) and the opposition Socialists both broadly support the status quo: wide autonomy for the Basques but definitely as part of Spain.
Mr Kortzidis, elected on an independent ticket last October, has repeatedly appealed to the ruling conservatives to terminate contracts allowing owners of nightclubs and leisure venues to take over swaths of the sandy shoreline.
Although the ruling conservatives desired to revise it after Japan regained its sovereignty in 1952, and an official commission favoured changes in the constitution in 1964, no political group in postwar Japan has been able to secure the two-thirds majority needed to make revisions.
They have also been criticising the ruling conservatives in the hope of winning the protest vote.
Britain's ruling Conservatives, led by John Major, Lord Hurd, and Malcom Rifkind, were deeply anti-Muslim.
He blames ruling conservatives, Germany and the troika of the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund — and vows, if elected prime minister, to roll back the austerity measures they support.
Spain's ruling conservatives, who secured access to European rescue loans of up to $110 billion for its troubled banks three years ago, have also advised Athens that fundamental reform is unavoidable if the country wants to escape the slow strangulation of crushing debt.
He encouraged the ruling Conservatives to follow suit.
The ruling Conservatives are promising a vote if they win.
The ruling Conservatives, who had initially opposed it, now restrict themselves to haggling over its level.
