Batzarre
Batzarre (English: 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 Spanish socialists, worn down for their collusion with the conservative UPN government up to 2013, and the Basque nationalists. It formed in 29 January 2011 the coalition Izquierda-Ezkerra along with Izquierda Unida de Navarra (IUN) and local Socialist figures disillusioned with the party's regional policies.
It formed out of the merger of EMK and LKI, the Basque branch of LCR. It started as a list of candidates in 1987 for the Navarrese Parliament election. In 1991, the party was formally established. It supported Herri Batasuna several times, e.g. in the Spanish general election, 1989, and in the European Parliament election, 1987 and 1989. In 1998 was one of the members of Euskal Herritarrok, but left the coalition after ETA broke the 1998 truce.
In 2004, Batzarre was one of the founding parties of the coalition Nafarroa Bai (Yes to Navarre). It obtained a seat in the Parliament of Navarre, elected on the Nafarroa Bai list, held by Ioseba Eceolaza.
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