Amaiur (1979 coalition)

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Amaiur
Agrupaciones Electorales de Merindad
Basque nameMerindadeetako Hautes Elkarteak
Founded1979 (1979)
Dissolved1983 (1983)
Merger of Herri Batasuna
Euskadiko Mugimendu Komunista
Euskadiko Ezkerra
Independents
Ideology Revolutionary socialism
Basque nationalism
Basque independence
Feminism
Antimilitarism
Ecologism
Republicanism
Political position Radical Left
Parliament of Navarre (1979-1983)
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Amaiur (Spanish language: Agrupaciones Electorales de Merindad, AMAIUR) was a Navarrese political coalition with a socialist and Basque nationalist ideology formed by the union of Herri Batasuna (HB), Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE) and the Communist Movement of Euskadi (EMK) in 1979, to contest the Navarrese elections of that year. The coalition gained 7 seats in the Parliament of Navarre. [1]

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