Euskal Herritarrok

Basque Citizens Euskal Herritarrok
Spokesperson	Arnaldo Otegi
Founded	September 1998 (1998-09)
Banned	23 May 2003 (2003-05-23) (by the Supreme Court of Spain)
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
Politics of Basque Country

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]

History

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 results

Regional parliaments

Basque Parliament

Basque Parliament
Election	Leading candidate	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1998	Arnaldo Otegi	224,001	17.66 (#3)	14 / 75	3
2001		143,139	10.04 (#4)	7 / 75	7

Parliament of Navarre

Parliament of Navarre
Election	Leading candidate	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1998	Pernando Barrena	47,271	15.58 (#3)	8 / 50	3

European Parliament

European Parliament
Election	Leading candidate	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1998	Koldo Gorostiaga	306,923	1.45 (#8)	1 / 64	1

Local councils

Local councils
Election	Spain			+/–	Election	Basque Country			Election	Navarre
	Votes	%	Seats			Votes	%	Seats		Votes	%	Seats
1999	272,446	1.28 (#8)	890 / 65,201	890	1999	228,169	19.63 (#2)	679 / 2,540	1999	44,299	14.94 (#3)	211 / 1,677

Foral elections

General Assemblies
Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
1999	228,528	19.73 (#2)	29 / 153	29

References

1. Santaren, Enrique (3 September 1998). "HB deja sus siglas y se integra en una amplia plataforma electoral". El Mundo (in Spanish). Bilbao. Archived from the original on 25 June 2001. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
2. Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Basque (Spain)". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 13 August 2004.
3. Europa Press (29 March 2003). "El Supremo cree que ilegalizar Batasuna protege la democracia porque 'es complemento de ETA'". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid: Mundinteractivos, S.A. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
4. Muez, Mikel (7 October 2001). "Las 'tres caras' de la izquierda 'abertzale' en Navarra". El País (in Spanish). Pamplona: Prisa . Retrieved 17 May 2019.