Euskal Herrialdeetako Alderdi Komunista
Euskal Herrialdeetako Alderdi Komunista (EHAK) , the Communist Party of the Basque Territories , is a Basque political party founded in 2002 with communist ideology, which advocates an independent Basque state and was launched in September 2008 at the request of the Spanish government through the Sala especial ("Special Chamber" ) was banned by the Supreme Court in Madrid as the successor organization of the banned left-wing national party Batasuna .
Until the elections to the parliament of the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country on April 17, 2005 , EHAK had not run for elections. The party adopted the minimum program from Auzkera Guztiak (All Options), which was previously banned. The newly established citizens' list wanted to guarantee that all social sectors are represented in the new regional parliament. Aukera Guztiak had been banned because candidates had been in contact with the head of the legal left-wing nationalist trade union LAB, which is close to Batasuna . It was noticeable, however, that a number of EHAK candidates are members of this union, but the party was not banned. EHAK offered the Batasuna electorate to represent them in the Basque Parliament. The Basque Communists received 150,188 votes (12.5%) and got 9 seats, two more than Batasuna before.
A few weeks before the Spanish parliamentary elections, the party's activities, as well as that of the traditional left-wing nationalist Acción Nacionalista Vasca , were suspended for three years by the prominent judge Baltasar Garzón on February 8, 2008 at the instigation of the government. The party's participation in the March elections was prevented in this way. In September 2008, the final party ban took place by court order.
The party's spokesperson is Nekane Erauzkin from the province of Gipuzkoa .
International criticism of the ban policy
In view of the current party bans, the UN special envoy for human rights and the fight against terrorism, Martin Scheinin, warned in May 2008 that Spain was expanding the concept of 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 one Criminal legislation (Art. 572-580). After the banning of the parties Batasuna , EHAK-PCTV and EAE-ANV, there is now no party from the spectrum of the left independence movement other than Aralar that could run for the next local and regional parliamentary elections. According to the critics, around 200,000 voters are deprived of an elementary, basic democratic right in this way. In fact, in the Basque regional elections in 2009, the small Aralar party, which had split from Batasuna in 2000 after the break of the ceasefire by ETA and tried to establish itself as a left-wing Basque nationalist but violence-rejecting party, was able to win.
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