Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista ( en, Socialist Party of the Basque Country; EHAS) was an illegal

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Basque political party, with presence in both

Spanish Basque Country The Basque Country (; eu, Euskadi ; es, País Vasco ), also called Basque Autonomous Community ( eu, Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa, links=no, EAE; es, Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, links=no, CAPV), is an autonomous community of Spain. It ...

and the

French Basque Country The French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country ( eu, Iparralde (), french: Pays basque, es, País Vasco francés) is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Since 1 January 2017, it constitu ...

History

EHAS was formed as the merge of the Spanish-Basque Eusko Alderdi Sozialista and the French-Basque Herriko Alderdi Sozialista, being the first

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party with presence at both sides of the border. The party participated in various unitary movements, like Euskal Erakunde Herritarra (coordination body of both independentist and non-independentist Basque socialists and communists) and the Koordinadora Abertzale Sozialista. The party also signed the Brest Charter in 1975. In 1977 the party merged with

Eusko Sozialistak Eusko Sozialistak ( en, Basque Socialists; ES) was a Basque socialist political party, with presence in the Spanish Basque Country. The leaders of ES were Javier Alonso and Mikel Salaberri . History ES was formed by members of the Christian social ...

, a small socialist party critical with ETA(m), to create

Herri Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea People's Socialist Revolutionary Party ( eu, Herri Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea; HASI) was a non-legal Basque political party, considered commonly to be the political branch of ETA. It always ran as part of the coalition of the Basque National ...

(HASI). In

Iparralde The French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country ( eu, Iparralde (), french: Pays basque, es, País Vasco francés) is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Since 1 January 2017, it constitu ...

the party continued to exist, and presented candidacies to various elections. Manex Goyhenetche was the French-Basque leader of the party, that maintained a strong relationship with the

Breton Democratic Union Breton Democratic Union (french: Union démocratique bretonne, br, Unvaniezh Demokratel Breizh, UDB) is a Breton nationalist, autonomist, and regionalist political party in Brittany (''Bretagne administrée'') and Loire-Atlantique. The UDB adv ...

.Pasado y presente del nacionalismo en Iparralde
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References

*Casanova, Iker and Asensio, Paul (2006). ''Argala''.

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(

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