Batzarre

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Batzarre
Leader Milagros Rubio  [ es; eu ]
Founded1987 (1987)
Merger of Euskadiko Mugimendu Komunista
Liga Komunista Iraultzailea
Youth wing Batzarre Gazteak
Membership (2016)Increase2.svg 541 [1]
Ideology Abertzale left [2]
Political position Left-wing to far-left
National affiliation Plural Left (2011–2015)
Unidas Podemos (2016–2023)
Sumar (2023–present)
Regional affiliation Euskal Herritarrok (1998–2000)
Nafarroa Bai (2004–2011)
Izquierda-Ezkerra (2011–2023)
Contigo Navarra (2023–present)
Parliament of Navarre
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Website
www.batzarre.org

Batzarre (English: Assembly) is a political party in Navarre, Spain. It has a branch in the Basque Autonomous Community known as Zutik. It bids to win the political space to the left of the Basque nationalists and the Spanish socialists, the latter eroded for their long-running collusion with the conservative UPN government. It formed on 29 January 2011 the coalition Izquierda-Ezkerra along with Izquierda Unida de Navarra (IUN) and local Socialist figures disillusioned with the party's regional alliances.

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History

It formed out of the merger of EMK and LKI, the Basque branch of LCR. It started as a list of candidates in 1987 for the Navarrese Parliament election. In 1991, the party was formally established. It supported Herri Batasuna several times, e.g. in the 1989 Spanish general election, and in the European Parliament election, 1987 and 1989. In 1998, the party was one of the members of Euskal Herritarrok; however, it left the coalition after ETA broke the 1998 truce.

In 2004, Batzarre was one of the founding parties of the coalition Nafarroa Bai (Yes to Navarre), who earned them a seat in the Parliament of Navarre, held by Ioseba Eceolaza  [ eu ]. However, internal frictions paved the way to the 2011 break-up of the coalition, and the establishment of a new progressive coalition, Izquierda-Ezkerra.

Electoral performance

Parliament of Navarre

DateVotesSeatsStatusSize
# %±pp #±
1987 5,8802.1%N/A9th
1991 6,5432.4%+0.3 Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0N/A6th
1995 6,5092.2%–0.2 Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0N/A7th
1999 47,27115.6%N/A Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1Opposition*
2003 7,8732.6%N/A Red Arrow Down.svg 1N/A7th
2007 77,87223.6%N/A Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1Opposition**
2011 18,4575.7%N/A Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0Opposition***
2015 12,4823.7%–2.0 Red Arrow Down.svg 1N/A***
2019 10,4723.0%–0.7 Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0N/A***

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References

  1. El 94,77% de los participantes en la consulta de Batzarre apoyan concurrir junto a Podemos e IU. Eldiario.es, 11/05/2016.
  2. Izquierdo Jean-Marie (2012). "La gauche abertzale et l'indépendantisme radical au Pays basque : quelle place sur la scène politique ?" [The Abertzale left and radical separatism in the Basque Country: what place does it have on the political scene?]. In Armand Colin (ed.). Les nationalismes dans l'Espagne contemporaine (1975–2011) [Nationalisms in contemporary Spain (1975–2011)] (in French). pp. 261–288. ISBN   9782200280505..