Amaiur
Amaiur was an electoral alliance of left-wing nationalist Basque parties formed to participate in the 2011 Spanish parliamentary elections . The same parties ran for the regional elections in 2012 and the 2015 parliamentary elections under the name Euskal Herria Bildu .
Electoral alliance
According to Spanish electoral law, political parties can form electoral alliances ( coaliciones ) and thus submit joint election proposals. Electoral alliances can only ever be founded for participation in a specific election, so they are not permanent organizations and the parties that form them retain their full independence.
In the regional and local elections on May 22, 2011 , the parties Eusko Alkartasuna and Alternatiba Eraikitzen ran in an electoral alliance called Bildu and had achieved considerable success.
On October 2, 2011, representatives of these two parties and the Aralar party announced that they would be running in the elections to the Spanish parliament (the Cortes Generales ) on November 20, 2011 in the three provinces of the Basque Country and Navarre in an electoral alliance called Amaiur .
The Amaiur alliance received 24.1 percent of the vote and six seats in these elections in the Basque Country and 14.9 percent of the vote and one seat in Navarre.
In the elections to the Basque regional parliament on October 21, 2012, the same three parties (Aralar, Eusko Alkartasuna and Alternatiba Eraikitzen) ran again in an electoral alliance, this time under the name Euskal Herria Bildu (EH BILDU). After the new izquierda abertzale party , Sortu , was legalized following a ruling by the Constitutional Court, the candidacy was also supported by the latter. However, Sortu was not formally a member of the electoral alliance, as the party was still in the process of building its structures.
EH BILDU received 25 percent of the vote in this election and, with 21 members, moved into the regional parliament as the second strongest force.
In the 2015 parliamentary elections , EH BILDU achieved 0.87 percent and thus lost 0.5 percentage points compared to the Amaiur result in 2011; In addition, the electoral alliance fell from seven to two mandates.
Surname
Amaiur (Spanish: Maya ) is the name of a symbolic place in the Pyrenees , in whose castle Navarre troops made the last resistance against the invasion by Castile in 1522 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Amara Arrarás: Amaiur llevará el soberanismo al Congreso. In: El País. October 3, 2011, Retrieved February 4, 2019 (Spanish).