- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Map
- Acknowledgements
- One Introduction
- Two Gibraltar Incommunicado
- Three The Lisbon Agreement
- Four Spain's Approaches to NATO
- Five ‘Different and Distant’? the Falklands/Malvinas Dispute
- Six Spain Joins NATO
- Seven The Border Remains Closed
- Eight Felipe Opens the Gates
- Nine Towards the Brussels Declaration
- Ten The Border is Fully Opened: Negotiations Get Under Way
- Eleven Osmosis Begins
- Twelve Sovereignty and Sovereigns
- Thirteen Into Felipe's Second Term: Guards and Gates
- Fourteen The Battle over the Airport
- Fifteen Gibraltarians Vote to Resist
- Sixteen First Visits by First Ladies
- Seventeen The Bossano Strategy
- Eighteen Spain's Role in Death on the Rock
- Nineteen A European Hong Kong?
- Twenty Tackling Money-Laundering and Smuggling
- Twenty-One Felipe Visits London
- Twenty-Two Four More Years for Joe Bossano
- Twenty-Three The External Frontier Issue Remains Unresolved
- Twenty-Four Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The Treaty of Utrecht (2–13 July 1713)
- Appendix 2 The Lisbon Agreement (10 April 1980)
- Appendix 3 The Brussels Declaration (27 November 1984)
- Appendix 4 The Government of Gibraltar
- Bibliography
- Index
Gibraltarians Vote to Resist
Gibraltarians Vote to Resist
December 1987-March 1988
- Chapter:
- (p.130) Fifteen Gibraltarians Vote to Resist
- Source:
- A Stone in Spain's Shoe
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter examines the implications of the outcome of the March 1988 elections in Gibraltar. On a turnout of 76%, Joe Bossano's GSLP put an end to 40 years of Conservative domination in Gibraltar by winning the maximum possible eight of the 15 seats and 58% of the popular vote. Bossano distinguished himself from other leading politicians by rejecting their ‘British–isation’ of Gibraltar — the endorsement of things British — and offering instead a psychological ‘Gibraltar–isation’ — the emancipation of Gibraltar from Britain. Gibraltarian voters showed that they were seeking their own path for the future. The election of Joe Bossano as Chief Minister meant a clear change of attitude by the political leadership in Gibraltar towards the Anglo–Spanish negotiation process.
Keywords: elections, Joe Bossano, British–isation, Gibraltar–isation
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Map
- Acknowledgements
- One Introduction
- Two Gibraltar Incommunicado
- Three The Lisbon Agreement
- Four Spain's Approaches to NATO
- Five ‘Different and Distant’? the Falklands/Malvinas Dispute
- Six Spain Joins NATO
- Seven The Border Remains Closed
- Eight Felipe Opens the Gates
- Nine Towards the Brussels Declaration
- Ten The Border is Fully Opened: Negotiations Get Under Way
- Eleven Osmosis Begins
- Twelve Sovereignty and Sovereigns
- Thirteen Into Felipe's Second Term: Guards and Gates
- Fourteen The Battle over the Airport
- Fifteen Gibraltarians Vote to Resist
- Sixteen First Visits by First Ladies
- Seventeen The Bossano Strategy
- Eighteen Spain's Role in Death on the Rock
- Nineteen A European Hong Kong?
- Twenty Tackling Money-Laundering and Smuggling
- Twenty-One Felipe Visits London
- Twenty-Two Four More Years for Joe Bossano
- Twenty-Three The External Frontier Issue Remains Unresolved
- Twenty-Four Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The Treaty of Utrecht (2–13 July 1713)
- Appendix 2 The Lisbon Agreement (10 April 1980)
- Appendix 3 The Brussels Declaration (27 November 1984)
- Appendix 4 The Government of Gibraltar
- Bibliography
- Index
