Euskal Herritarrok

Basque Citizens Euskal Herritarrok
Spokesperson	Arnaldo Otegi
Founded	September 1998
Dissolved	23 May 2003 (banned by the Supreme Court of Spain)[1]
Merger of	Herri Batasuna Batzarre (until 2000) Zutik (until 2000) [2]
Merged into	Batasuna A minority faction formed the Aralar Party
Headquarters	c/ Juan de Bilbao, nº 17, Donostia
Ideology	Basque nationalism Socialism Ezker abertzalea Left-wing Nationalism Basque independence Feminism Ecologism Revolutionary socialism
Political position	Radical left
Basque Parliament (1998-2001)	14 / 75
Parliament of Navarre (1999-2003)	8 / 55
European Parliament (1999-2004)	1 / 64
Town councillors (1999-2003)	890 / 4,635
Politics of Basque Country

Herri Batasuna (English: Basque Citizens, EH) was a Basque independentist and socialist political party in the Basque Country. EH was banned in 2003 on the grounds that it sympathized with ETA.

History

In February 2000, Batzarre and Zutik left EH after the rupture of the ETA 1998-2000 truce, due to the absence of any condemnation of that fact by EH. In June 2000 a sector of Herri Batasuna also decided to split and form the Aralar Party, that openly and fully rejected ETA and its rupture of the truce.^[3]

Election results

Election	Votes	%	Seats
Basque parliamentary election, 1998	224,001	17.91	14 MPs
Navarrese parliamentary election, 1999	47.271	15,58	8 MPs
Spanish municipal elections, 1999	272,446	1.28	890 councillors
European Parliament election, 1999 (Spain)	306,923	1.45	1 MEP^a
Elections to the Juntas Generales of the Basque Country, 1999	228,528	20.04	29 junteros
Basque parliamentary election, 2001	143,139	10.12	7 MPs

References

1. "El Supremo cree que ilegalizar Batasuna protege la democracia porque 'es complemento de ETA'", El Mundo, 29 de marzo de 2003.
2. "HB deja sus siglas y se integra en una amplia plataforma electoral", El Mundo, 3 de septiembre de 1998.
3. Las 'tres caras' de la izquierda 'abertzale' en Navarra.