Euskal Herritarrok

Basque Citizens

Euskal Herritarrok
Basque Citizens Euskal Herritarrok
Spokesperson	Arnaldo Otegi
Founded	September 1998
Banned	23 May 2003 (by the Supreme Court of Spain)
Merger of	Herri Batasuna; Batzarre (until 2000); Zutik (until 2000)
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[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats
1998 Basque parliamentary election	224,001	17.91	14 MPs
1999 Navarrese parliamentary election	47,271	15,58	8 MPs
	272,446	1.28	890 councillors
1999 European Parliament election in Spain	306,923	1.45	1 MEP^a
Elections to the Juntas Generales of the Basque Country, 1999	228,528	20.04	29 junteros
2001 Basque parliamentary election	143,139	10.12	7 MPs

References[]

^ 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.
^ Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Basque (Spain)". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 13 August 2004.
^ 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.
^ Muez, Mikel (7 October 2001). "Las 'tres caras' de la izquierda 'abertzale' en Navarra". El País (in Spanish). Pamplona: Prisa. Retrieved 17 May 2019.

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[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.

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