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2015 Basque Foral Elections
The 2015 Basque foral elections were held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th Juntas Generales of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa. All 153 seats in the three Juntas Generales were up for election. The elections were held simultaneously with 2015 Spanish regional elections, regional elections in thirteen Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities and 2015 Spanish local elections, local elections all throughout Spain. Opinion polls Overall Foral deputation control The following table lists party control in the foral deputations. Gains for a party are displayed with the cell's background shaded in that party's colour. Historical territories Álava Biscay Gipuzkoa References {{Basque elections 2015 elections in Spain, Basque Foral elections in the Basque Country (autonomous community), 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juntas Generales
The Juntas Generales (General Councils, Batzar Nagusiak in Basque language, Basque) are representative assembly, representative assemblies in the Southern Basque Country that go back to the 14th century.Larry Trask, Trask, L. ''The History of Basque'' Routledge: 1997 They are the Foral Parliament of the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country were - and are - Foral Parliament of Biscay (''Juntas Generales de Bizkaia''), Foral Parliament of Gipuzkoa (''Juntas Generales de Gipuzkoa''), Foral Parliament of Álava, Alava (''Juntas Generales de Alava''), Parliament of Navarre, Foral Parliament of Navarre and Parliament of Navarre and Béarn. The equivalent in Navarre was the Cortes—or ''The Three States'', roughly House of the Commons—to become the present-day Parliament of Navarre. They were part of an early form of democratic institutions. At the local level, the heads of households (male or female) would meet on Sundays after church at the church door in a meeting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union, Progress And Democracy
Union, Progress and Democracy ( es, link=no, Unión, Progreso y Democracia , UPyD ) was a Spanish political party founded in September 2007 and dissolved in December 2020. It was a social-liberal party that rejected any form of nationalism, especially the separatist Basque and Catalan movements. The party was deeply pro-European and wanted the European Union to adopt a federal system without overlap between the European, national and regional governments. It also wanted to replace the State of Autonomies with a much more centralist, albeit still politically decentralized, unitary system as well as substituting a more proportional election law for the current one. UPyD first stood for election in the 9 March 2008 general election. It received 303,246 votes, or 1.2 percent of the national total, and one seat in the Congress of Deputies [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aralar (Basque Political Party)
Aralar was a Basque nationalism, Basque socialism, socialist and separatist political party in Spain. It was opposed to the violent struggle of ETA (separatist group), ETA. History Aralar was born in the 1990s from a critical tendency within Herri Batasuna (HB) and Euskal Herritarrok (EH), led by Patxi Zabaleta. The tendency had its main base in Navarre. The breaking of ETA's truce in 2000 provoked Herri Batasuna's reformation into Batasuna, to have presence in all Euskal Herria. Following disagreements over the internal organization of Batasuna, Aralar broke away to form a separate political party. In 2004 the youth wing of Aralar, Iratzarri, was founded. In the May 2003 election for the Navarre Assembly, Aralar obtained 24,068 votes (8.02% of the valid votes) and four seats and in the same community obtained 4.76% of the valid votes in the municipal elections and 18 local councillors. In the Basque Autonomous Community it obtained 30 councillors and 1.51% of the valid votes. Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternatiba (Basque Political Party)
Alternatiba ( en, Alternative) is a Basque socialist political party. Founded in 2009, Alternatiba was born as a critical tendency within Izquierda Unida (IU) in the Basque Country opposing a participation in the Basque government along with the PNV and Eusko Alkartasuna. In 2009 this tendency broke away from IU and formed an independent party. See also * Basque nationalism * Batasuna * EH Bildu EH Bildu, short for Euskal Herria Bildu ( en, link=yes, Basque Country Gather or Basque Country Unite) is a left-wing, Basque nationalist, pro-independence political coalition active in the Spanish autonomous communities of Basque Country, Navar ... References External links * https://web.archive.org/web/20180708162258/http://alternatiba.net// Basque conflict Basque history Far-left politics in Spain Political parties established in 2011 Political parties in Northern Basque Country Politics of Spain Pro-independence parties Secessionist organizations in Europe Social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eusko Alkartasuna
Eusko Alkartasuna (; en, Basque Solidarity; es, Solidaridad Vasca; french: Solidarité basque) 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". Recently, the party adopted the slogan "Euskal Sozialdemokrazia" ("Basque social democracy"). According to their statute, they are striving to achieve "full national and social freedom in and for the Basque Country". They support the creation of an independent Basque Country along the avenues provided by the European Union, as a union of peoples, a federation of nations, not states. The youth wing of the party is the Young Patriots (''Gazte Abertzaleak''). Origin Even though the idea for a Basque national political party separate from both Herri Batasuna and the Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bildu
EH Bildu, short for Euskal Herria Bildu ( en, link=yes, Basque Country Gather or Basque Country Unite) is a left-wing, Basque nationalist, pro-independence political coalition active in the Spanish autonomous communities of Basque Country, Navarre and Burgos Province. EHB's predecessor Bildu ("Gather") was launched on 3 April 2011 to participate in the May 2011 local elections It was formed as a reaction to the Supreme Court of Spain's ruling in March 2011 that barred the new left-wing Basque nationalist ''(Abertzale left)'' Sortu party from electoral participation. Bildu was an alliance of the centre-left Eusko Alkartasuna, left-wing Alternatiba and independents of the left-wing nationalist spectrum, many of whom former members or supporters of the outlawed Batasuna party. EHB was launched on 10 June 2012 in San Sebastián by five founding components: Eusko Alkartasuna, Aralar, Alternatiba, Sortu, and independents of the ''Abertzale left'' (groups and independent individual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basque Government
The Basque Government ( eu, Eusko Jaurlaritza, es, Gobierno Vasco) is the governing body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain. The head of the Basque government is known as the ''Lehendakari''. The Lehendakari is appointed by the Basque Parliament every four years, after a regional election. Its headquarters are located in the Lakua district of Vitoria-Gasteiz in Álava. The first Basque Government was created after the approval of the first Basque Statute of Autonomy on 1 October 1936, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. It was headed by José Antonio Aguirre (EAJ-PNV) and was supported by a coalition of all the parties that fought the Nationalist forces in the Civil War: those comprising the Popular Front (PSOE, PCE, EAE-ANV and other parties that sided with the Second Spanish Republic). After the defeat of the Republic, the Basque Government survived in exile, chaired by Jesús María Leizaola after the death of Aguirre in 1960. This first Basque Government was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Left–Greens
United Left–Greens ( eu, Ezker Batua–Berdeak, EB–B) was a left wing environmentalist political party in Spain. Javier Madrazo led the party as general coordinator from 1994 to 2009. In the 1994 Basque elections EB won 93,291 votes (9.15%) and gained its first six seats in the Basque Parliament. It was a member of the Basque Government for 8 years (between 2001 and 2009), supporting Juan José Ibarretxe of the Basque Nationalist Party as ''lehendakari''. In 2009 it obtained 36,134 votes (3.51%). Its remaining MP in the Basque Parliament, Mikel Arana, the general coordinator, lost his seat in the 2012 Basque parliamentary elections, leaving the party without representation there. In January 2012, following a period of internal strife, EB joined the Communist Party of the Basque Country Communist Party of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskadiko Partidu Komunista, es, Partido Comunista de Euskadi), is the federation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in Basque Country and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of The Peoples Of Spain
Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain ( es, Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Spain. PCPE was founded out of the unification of several Marxist-Leninist factions. The youth organization is called the Communist Youth of the Peoples of Spain. History From 13–15 December 1984 a "Communist Unity Congress" was held in Madrid. Partido Comunista de España Unificado (PCEU, ''Unified Communist Party of Spain''), Movimiento de Recuperación del PCE (MRPCE, ''Movement for the Recuperation of the PCE''), Movimiento para la Recuperación y Unificación del PCE (MRUPCE, ''Movement for the Recuperation and Unification of the PCE''), Candidatura Comunista (CC, ''Communist Candidature''), and some minor groups unified themselves, thus creating ''Partido Comunista'' (renamed PCPE in 1986). All these groups had surged from splits from the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) during the 1970s and 1980s. Quickly after its foundation, PCPE wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
