Euskal Herritarrok ( en, Basque Citizens, EH) was a Basque independentist and

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in the Basque Country. EH was banned in 2003 by the

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on the grounds that it sympathized with

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History

In February 2000,

Batzarre Batzarre ( en, Assembly) is a political party in Navarre, Spain. It has a branch in the Basque Autonomous Community known as Zutik. It bids to win the political space to the left of the Basque nationalists and the Spanish socialists, the latte ...

and Zutik left EH after the rupture of the

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

and its rupture of the truce.

Election results

References

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