EH Bildu
| Gathered Euskal Herria Bildu Basque Country |
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| Party leader | Arnaldo Otegi |
| founding | 2011 |
| Headquarters |
Donostia-San Sebastian , Gipuzkoa , Spain 
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| Alignment |
Separatism , Basque Nationalism , Left Nationalism , Socialism , Progressivism |
| Spanish House of Representatives |
5/350 |
| Spanish Senate |
1/265 |
| Basque Parliament |
18/75 |
| Parliament of Navarre |
7/50 |
| MEPs |
1/59 |
| EP Group | GUE / NGL |
| Website | ehbildu.eus |
Euskal Herria Bildu ( EH Bildu for short , German Basque Country gathered ) is a party association in Spain to which the left-wing Basque national parties Eusko Alkartasuna , Sortu and Alternatiba as well as independents belong. Until 2017, the party association also included the disbanded Aralar party .
legal form
EH Bildu is a party association ( federación ) of four parties permitted under Spanish party law. As such, the party association has its own legal personality and organs. At the same time, the member parties also retain their legal personality.
history
prehistory
Eusko Alkartasuna and Alternatiba Eraikitzen
The Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) party was formed in 1986 as a split from the Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV) . Alternatiba Eraikitzen (mostly for short: Alternatiba ) split off in 2009 from the Basque regional association of the Spanish left-wing party Izquierda Unida (IU) .
Izquierda abertzale and Aralar
Since the end of the Franco dictatorship, Herri Batasuna (“People's Unit”, HB for short) was the party of the radical Basque national left ( izquierda abertzale ) for decades, gaining between 10% and 18% of the votes in the various elections to the Basque regional parliament scored. Since she did not distance herself from ETA's terrorist activities , she was often referred to as its political arm. In 2001, the Aralar party , which rejects violence as a means of political conflict in its program, split off from Herri Batasuna . The HB was banned in 2003 after a change in the Political Parties Act due to the lack of distancing from the ETA. Since the ban, other parties and groups of the izquierda abertzale such as the Partido Comunista de las Tierras Vascas-Euskal Herrialdeetako Alderdi Komunista ("Communist Party of the Basque Countries", PCTV-EHAK) or the traditional Acción Nacionalista Vasca ("Basque Nationalist Action" , ANV-EAE) to elections, which were also banned in September 2008, which meant that izquierda abertzale was not represented in the Basque regional parliament for the first time after the 2009 elections due to a lack of approved candidacies. On January 10, 2011, the ETA announced a “permanent and general ceasefire”, and then on October 20, 2011, the “definitive end of its armed activities”.
Election alliance Bildu
On April 6, 2011 the two parties Eusko Alkartasuna and Alternatiba Eraikitzen informed the electoral authorities that in the elections scheduled for May 22, 2011 (local elections and elections to the regional parliament of Navarre ) as an electoral alliance under the name " BILDU-Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) / Alternatiba Eraikitzen ".
The election proposals were approved by the responsible election committees and published on April 26, 2011 in the respective official gazettes.
The lists of the Bildu electoral alliance included not only members of the two parties belonging to it, but also independent candidates belonging to the izquierda abertzale . In the opinion of the Spanish government and the public prosecutor's office, these lists were to be seen as a continuation of the activities of the banned Herri Batasuna party, mainly due to the persons of the independent candidates accepted , which is why they at the Supreme Court ( Tribunal Suprem o) against the admission of the nominations for election complained. The court upheld the lawsuit on May 1, 2011, banning participation in the election. In response to an electoral constitutional complaint from Bildu, the Spanish Constitutional Court overturned the judgment of the Tribunal Supremo on May 5, 2011 , allowing the electoral alliance to participate in the election.
In the elections on May 22, 2011, Bildu in the Basque Autonomous Community was the second largest political force after the PNV, with around 25% of the vote. In San Sebastián she was the strongest candidate. In the elections to the regional parliament of Navarre, Bildu received 13.3% of the vote , which resulted in seven seats.
Amaiur alliance
In order to participate in the elections to the Spanish parliament in November 2011 , the Aralar party also joined this electoral alliance, which was now called Amaiur . The Amaiur alliance received 24.1% of the vote and six seats in the Basque Country and 14.9% of the vote and one seat in Navarre.
Sortu
At the beginning of 2011, the new Sortu party was founded as a representative of izquierda abertzale , which expressly distanced itself from ETA's terrorism in its statutes. However, the Supreme Court ( Tribunal Supremo ) banned the registration of the newly founded party in the register of parties by judgment of March 23, 2011 (according to Spanish law, a party does not exist as a legal person until this registration). In response to a constitutional complaint, the Constitutional Court overturned this decision of the Tribunal Supremo on June 20, 2012 . On July 24, 2012 Sortu was entered in the register of parties.
Electoral alliance EH Bildu
In the elections to the Basque regional parliament on October 21, 2012, the 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 party of the izquierda abertzale , Sortu , was legalized by the judgment of the Constitutional Court, the candidacy was also supported by it. However, Sortu was not formally a member of the electoral alliance, as the party was still in the process of building its structures.
On EH Bildu accounted for in this election 25% of the vote and they moved into the Basque regional parliament with 21 deputies as the second-strongest force.
Conversion into party association
In 2014 the four parties finally formed a party association. Its governing body is a board of directors ( mesa política ), to which the general secretaries of the four member parties belong. The party association first ran as such in the 2015 Spanish parliamentary elections .
Election results
For the local and regional elections in 2015 , EH Bildu ran for the first time as a party association. In the municipal council elections, EH Bildu received 24% of the vote in the Basque Country and 16% in Navarre . In the election to the regional parliament of Navarre she got 14% and eight seats.
Web links
- Euskal Herria Bildu website (Basque, Spanish)