Acción Nacionalista Vasca
| Acción Nacionalista Vasca | |
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| Party leader | Kepa Bereziartua |
| Secretary General | Antxon Gomez |
| founding | 1930 |
| Prohibition | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Portugalete |
| newspaper | Acción Nacionalista (1932-1933), Tierra Vasca-Eusko Lurra (1933-1940, 1956-1976), Eusko Ekintza (2005-2008) |
Acción Nacionalista Vasca ( Basque Eusko Abertzale Ekintza ) was a Basque party . She was left-wing Basque nationalist and advocated an independent and socialist Basque Country. Its abbreviation was EAE-ANV. The Spanish government ordered the suspension of all party activities in January 2008 because it is said to have links to the banned Basque party Batasuna . On September 16, 2008, the ANV was declared dissolved by the Supreme Court and any further activity as a party was prohibited.
history
EAE-ANV was founded in the 1930s as a secular split from the conservative, Catholic Basque nationalist party ( Partido Nacionalista Vasco - PNV ).
In the Spanish parliamentary elections in February 1936 , she joined the Popular Front government, the Frente Popular . In the final phase of the Second Spanish Republic , it even provided a minister for the Spanish government, Tomás Bilbao.
With the Spanish Civil War , members of the EAE-ANV joined the Basque Army and fought on the side of the Spanish Republic against General Franco . 550 members of the party died in the Spanish Civil War fighting against Franco's units. After the victory of the Francoist troops, the party was banned in 1939.
During the Franco dictatorship EAE-ANV was then forced into illegality. After the end of Franquism , EAE-ANV was again registered as a party in 1977 . She took part in the first democratic elections in 1977 in the Basque provinces of Guipúzcoa y Vizcaya - but won less than one percent of the vote.
At times EAE-ANV was part of the Basque party coalition Herri Batasuna .
Recent history and 2008 ban
EAE-ANV participated for the first time again in May 2007 in local and regional elections in the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country . The reason was that EAE-ANV wanted to give the citizens of the Basque Country the opportunity to vote for a left-wing independence party. The Batasuna party and its successor Abertzale Socialists Batasuna - ASB (German Union of Socialist Patriots) had previously been banned.
EAE-ANV lists have been banned in 133 out of 257 municipalities across the Basque Country. In response, EAE-ANV called on the population to ignore the ban on their electoral lists and still vote for the party. Where EAE-ANV was forbidden, this was a direct call to vote "invalid" - but with a reference to EAE-ANV. In total, EAE-ANV received 200,000 votes, which was 14 percent of the population. In 2008, despite the ban on many of their local lists, they had 45 mayors and 437 local offices - 337 in the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country and 100 in Navarre .
The Spanish government, chaired by the Social Democratic President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ( PSOE ), requested a ban on EAE-ANV because it sees links with the Batasuna party. Its activities were temporarily suspended in January 2008 and the party was therefore unable to take part in the Spanish parliamentary elections a few weeks later. The Supreme Court followed the government's request and banned the party on September 16, 2008.
In view of the ban, the UN special envoy for human rights and the fight against terrorism, Martin Scheinin , warned in May 2008 that Spain was expanding the term terrorism to include areas that had nothing to do with terrorism and called on the Spanish government to conduct an independent review of the current criminal legislation (Art. 572-580).
Individual evidence
- ↑ GARA: EAE-ANV se esforzará por buscar allianzas con sectores independentistas , October 25, 2007.