Pablo Picasso from the Catalan independence movement during his youth despite expressing general support and being friendly with activists within it. He did not join the armed forces for any side or country during World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. As a Spanish citizen living in France, Picasso was under no compulsion to fight against the invading Germans in either world war. However, in 1940, he did apply for French citizenship, but it was refused on the grounds of his "extremist ideas evolving towards communism". This information was not revealed until 2003. At the start of the
Flux (political party) 0.44%, a 3x increase from their 2016 election results, and just 83 votes short of winning a seat in the Mining and Pastoral region. The party controversially ran 26 so-called "fake independents" in the 2017 Western Australian election – candidates affiliated with the party who appeared as independents on the ballot papers. The party ran more self-titled independent candidates than they did candidates listed under the Flux ticket. Flux (political party) Flux is a political movement which aims to replace the world's elected legislatures with a new system known as issue-based direct democracy (IBDD). Flux originated in and is most