Batasuna was a Basque nationalist political party. Based mainly in Spain,it was banned in 2003,after a court ruling declared proven that the party was financing ETA with public money.
Arnaldo Otegi Mondragón is a politician from the Basque Country who has been the General Secretary of Basque nationalist party EH Bildu since 2017. He was member of the Basque Parliament for both Herri Batasuna and Euskal Herritarrok. He was a convicted member of the ETA,a banned armed separatist group organization,in his early years. He was one of the key negotiators during the unsuccessful peace talks in Loiola and Geneva,in 2006.
On 30 December 2006,a van bomb exploded in the Terminal 4 parking area at the Madrid–Barajas Airport in Spain,killing two and injuring 52. On 9 January 2007,the Basque nationalist and separatist organisation ETA claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack,one of the most powerful carried out by ETA,damaged the airport terminal and destroyed the entire parking structure. The bombing ended a nine-month ceasefire declared by the armed organisation and prompted the government to halt plans for negotiations with the organisation. Despite the attack,ETA claimed that the ceasefire was still in place and regretted the death of civilians. The organisation eventually announced the end of the ceasefire in June 2007.
The Basque Country,also called the Basque Autonomous Community,is an autonomous community in northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava,Biscay,and Gipuzkoa. It also surrounds an enclave called Treviño,which belongs to the neighboring autonomous community of Castile and León.
Egin was a Basque newspaper written in Spanish language and Basque language. Founded in 1977 the paper was in circulation until 1998 when it was closed down by the Spanish government.
Sortu is a Basque socialist political party. Founded in February 2011,it is the first political party belonging to the Basque nationalist "abertzale left" that openly rejects any kind of political violence. Before Sortu,sections of the Basque nationalist left who rejected ETA's violence left the movement and founded another party,Aralar,to represent that element of the abertzale left.
The 2012 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,21 October 2012,to elect the 10th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. Lehendakari Patxi López announced the parliament's dissolution half a year ahead of schedule as a result of the People's Party (PP) withdrawing their support from his government,prompting Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo,who had been scheduling a snap election in Galicia to be held at some point throughout late 2012,to make his decision to have a simultaneous vote.
EH Bildu,short for Euskal Herria Bildu,is a left-wing,Basque nationalist and pro-independence political party and a federation of political parties in Spain. It is the main political force of the abertzale left in Spain. EH Bildu is active in the Spanish Basque Country,that is,in the Basque Autonomous Community and Chartered Community of Navarre,as well as in the Treviño enclave of the Burgos Province. In the French Basque Country,it has an alliance with the party Euskal Herria Bai,with the goal of establishing a state for the Basque Country across the Spanish-French border.
The 2016 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,25 September 2016,to elect the 11th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu announced that the election would be held one month ahead of schedule,on 25 September 2016,based on the "climate of ungovernability" affecting national politics as a result of the ongoing Spanish government formation negotiations,intending to move the regional election as far away as possible from a possible new general election. This prompted Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo to hold the Galician regional election in the same date.
Eusko Alkartasuna is a Basque nationalist and social-democratic political party operating in Spain and France. The Basque language name means Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA. The party describes itself as a "Basque nationalist,democratic,popular,progressive and non-denominational party". The party has adopted the slogan "Euskal Sozialdemokrazia".
Joxe Pernando Barrena Arza is a Basque politician,former member of the Parliament of Navarre and member of the European Parliament for Spain.
Mertxe Aizpurua Arzallus is a Spanish journalist and politician from the Basque Country who currently serves as Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain.
Jon Iñarritu Gartzia is a Basque politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was previously a member of the Senate of Spain.
Iñaki Ruiz de Pinedo Undiano is a Basque sociologist,politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was previously a member of the Basque Parliament.
Oskar Matute García de Jalón is a Spanish politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was previously a member of the Basque Parliament.
The 2024 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,21 April 2024,to elect the 13th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election.
Maria Isabel Pozueta Fernández is a Basque sexologist,activist,politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain.
Hasier Arraiz Barbadillo is a Spanish politician from the Basque Country. He was the first president of Sortu,and a member of the Basque Parliament.
Enrique Rodríguez Galindo was a Spanish brigadier general of the Civil Guard,who was sentenced to 71 years in prison in 2000 for the kidnapping and murder of the alleged ETA members JoséAntonio Lasa and JoséIgnacio Zabala in the so-called Antiterrorist Liberation Groups case.
