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Basque Citizens Euskal Herritarrok | |
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Spokesperson | Arnaldo Otegi |
Founded | September 1998 |
Banned | 23 May 2003Supreme Court of Spain) | (by the
Merger of | Herri Batasuna Batzarre (until 2000) Zutik (until 2000)[1] |
Merged into | Batasuna A minority faction formed the Aralar Party |
Headquarters | c/ Juan de Bilbao, nº 17, Donostia |
Ideology | Basque nationalism Socialism Ezker abertzalea Left-wing nationalism Basque independence Feminism Ecologism Revolutionary socialism |
Political position | Left-wing |
Basque Parliament (1998-2001) | 14 / 75 |
Parliament of Navarre (1999-2003) | 8 / 55 |
European Parliament (1999-2004) | 1 / 64 |
Town councillors (1999-2003) | 890 / 4,635 |
Euskal Herritarrok (English: Basque Citizens, EH) was a Basque independentist and socialist political party in the Basque Country.[2] EH was banned in 2003 by the Supreme Court of Spain on the grounds that it sympathized with ETA.[3]
In February 2000, Batzarre and Zutik left EH after the rupture of the ETA 1998-2000 truce, due to the absence of any condemnation of that fact by EH. In June 2000 a sector of Herri Batasuna also decided to split and form the Aralar Party, that openly and fully rejected ETA and its rupture of the truce.[4]
Election | Votes | % | Seats |
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1998 Basque parliamentary election | 224,001 | 17.91 | 14 MPs |
1999 Navarrese parliamentary election | 47,271 | 15,58 | 8 MPs |
1999 Spanish municipal elections | 272,446 | 1.28 | 890 councillors |
1999 European Parliament election in Spain | 306,923 | 1.45 | 1 MEPa |
Elections to the Juntas Generales of the Basque Country, 1999 | 228,528 | 20.04 | 29 junteros |
2001 Basque parliamentary election | 143,139 | 10.12 | 7 MPs |