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.
The Basque Country is the name given to the home of the Basque people. The Basque Country is located in the western Pyrenees,straddling the border between France and Spain on the coast of the Bay of Biscay.
Euskal Herritarrok was a Basque independentist and socialist political party in the Basque Country. EH was banned in 2003 by the Supreme Court of Spain on the grounds that it sympathized with ETA.
Arnaldo Otegi Mondragón is a politician from the Basque Country who is currently General Secretary of Basque nationalist party EH Bildu. He was member of the Basque Parliament for both Herri Batasuna and Euskal Herritarrok. He was a convicted member of the banned armed separatist group organization ETA in his early years. He was one of the key negotiators during the unsuccessful peace talks in Loiola and Geneva,in 2006.
Aralar was a Basque socialist and separatist political party in Spain. It was opposed to the violent struggle of ETA.
Miren Uxue Barkos Berruezo,simply known as Uxue Barkos,is a Spanish journalist and politician who served as the President of Navarre from 2015 to 2019. She previously represented the Basque coalition Geroa Bai,and before that,Nafarroa Bai,in the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
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.
Amaiur was a left-wing Basque nationalist and separatist political coalition from the Basque Country and Navarre. The name of the coalition comes from the fortress of Amaiur in Navarre,which was one of the last Basque strongholds during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
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 autonomous communities of Basque Country and Navarre and in the Treviño enclave of the Burgos Province.
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".
Navarrese Left Union,better known by its acronym UNAI was an electoral coalition formed in 1977 to present a list in the first democratic elections in Spain since 1936 in the constituency of Navarre. UNAI was the sister coalition of Euskadiko Ezkerra,that presented lists in Gipuzkoa,Araba and Bizkaia.
Cambio-Aldaketa was a grouping of electors in Navarre supported by the "quadripartite",the political parties supporting Uxue Barkos's regional government—Geroa Bai,EH Bildu,Podemos and Izquierda-Ezkerra—to contest the 2015 Spanish Senate election. The first incarnation of the alliance was disbanded after it secured only one out of the four directly-elected senators in Navarre,with its stated aim having been to win the election and subsequently obtain three senators.
The 9th Parliament of Navarre was a meeting of the Parliament of Navarre,the regional legislature of Navarre,with the membership determined by the results of the regional election held on 24 May 2015. The parliament met for the first time on 17 June 2015.
The 10th Parliament of Navarre is the current meeting of the Parliament of Navarre,the regional legislature of Navarre,with the membership determined by the results of the regional election held on 26 May 2019. The parliament met for the first time on 19 June 2019. According to the Statute of Autonomy of Navarre the maximum legislative term of the parliament is 4 years.
JoséMaría Aierdi Fernández de Barrena is a Basque politician,Second Vice President of Navarre and Minister of Territorial Planning,Housing,Landscape and Strategic Projects of Navarre. He was previously a member of the Parliament of Navarre and mayor of Lekunberri.
Maria Angeles Beitialarrangoitia Lizarralde is a Basque journalist and politician. She was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain and Basque Parliament,and mayor of Hernani.
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.
Sergio Sayas López is a Spanish politician who has served in the Congress of Deputies representing Navarre since the April 2019 election. Previously,he served in the Parliament of Navarre from 2007 to 2019. He was a member of the Navarrese People's Union (UPN) until his expulsion in 2022,after which he established the Navarre Platform (PN). After allying with the People's Party of Navarre in 2023,he officially joined it in 2024.
