The Basque Nationalist Party,officially Basque National Party in English,is a Basque nationalist and regionalist political party. The party is located in the centre of the political spectrum.
The People's Party is a conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Spain.
Mariano Rajoy Brey is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018,when a vote of no confidence ousted his government. On 5 June 2018,he announced his resignation as People's Party leader.
María San Gil Noain is a Spanish Basque politician. Born in San Sebastián,San Gil graduated with a degree in Trilingual Biblical Philology from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. In 1991 she began working for the San Sebastián city council,representing the conservative Partido Popular. On January 23,1995 she witnessed the assassination of her colleague Gregorio Ordóñez by the Basque separatist group ETA,and thereafter decided that she would spend her political career fighting terrorism.
Francisco Javier "Patxi" López Álvarez is a Spanish politician serving as Member of the Congress of Deputies and chair of the Constitutional Committee.
España 2000 (E-2000) is a far-right political party in Spain which has never obtained national or regional parliamentary representation. The last time it ran for General elections was in 2011,where it obtained 9266 votes out of a total of 24,590,557 valid votes.
JoséAntonio Ardanza Garro was a Spanish politician who became the second elected Lehendakari after the approval of the Statute of Autonomy. He was in office between 1985 and 1999.
The 2005 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,17 April 2005,to elect the 8th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election.
The proposed 2008 referendum was a poll intended to occur in the Basque Country in that year,but prevented by the Supreme Court of Spain at the instigation of the Spanish Government.
The 2009 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,1 March 2009,to elect the 9th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. It would be the first time that the elections for two of the Spanish "historical regions"—namely,those comprising Andalusia,Catalonia,Galicia and the Basque Country itself—were held simultaneously. This would evolve into an unwritten convention in subsequent years,with Basque and Galician elections being held concurrently in 2012,2016 and 2020.
The 2001 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,13 May 2001,to elect the 7th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election.
Juan María Atutxa Mendiola is a politician from the Basque Country with a nationalist ideology. A member of the Basque Nationalist Party,he was Head of the Department of Interior (1991–98) and President of the Basque Parliament (1998–2005). He currently heads the Sabino Arana foundation.
Íñigo Urkullu Renteria is a Basque politician from Spain,and the Lehendakari (President) of the Basque Government since 2012.
The 2012 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,21 October 2012,to elect the 10th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. Lehendakari Patxi López announced the parliament's dissolution half a year ahead of schedule as a result of the People's Party (PP) withdrawing their support from his government,prompting Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo,who had been scheduling a snap election in Galicia to be held at some point throughout late 2012,to make his decision to have a simultaneous vote.
The 2016 Basque regional election was held on Sunday,25 September 2016,to elect the 11th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in Galicia. Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu announced that the election would be held one month ahead of schedule,on 25 September 2016,based on the "climate of ungovernability" affecting national politics as a result of the ongoing Spanish government formation negotiations,intending to move the regional election as far away as possible from a possible new general election. This prompted Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo to hold the Galician regional election in the same date.
Etxerat is an association of family members of people who have been imprisoned or exiled because of their activity in support of the Basque National Liberation Movement. Most of those prisoners and exiles are members,or former members,of the Basque armed separatist organization ETA. Others were not members of ETA but have been jailed for collaborating with it,or have been convicted of other crimes such as belonging to illegal organizations like SEGI or Gestoras pro Amnistía,belonging to or trying to rebuild banned political parties such as Batasuna and Askatasuna,participating in Kale borroka,or for the "public glorification of terrorism". Etxerat's primary activities are to support those family members,and to campaign to defend the rights of their imprisoned and exiled relatives.
The 15th National Congress of the People's Party was held in Madrid from 1 to 3 October 2004,to renovate the governing bodies of the People's Party (PP) and establish the party's main lines of action and strategy for the next leadership term. The congress slogan was "Spain,the hope that unites us",and it saw Mariano Rajoy being elected unopposed as party president,with 98.4% of the delegate vote in the congress and 1.6% of blank ballots (41).
Edurne Uriarte Bengoechea is a Spanish politician,political scientist,and sociologist. She is a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies for the People's Party of Spain,representing The Constituency of Madrid.
The 14th National Congress of the People's Party was held in Madrid from 25 to 27 January 2002,to renovate the governing bodies of the People's Party (PP) and establish the party's main lines of action and strategy for the next leadership term. It saw JoséMaría Aznar being re-elected unopposed for a fifth term as party president,with 99.6% of the delegate vote in the congress and 0.4% of blank ballots (10).
Emilio Guevara Saleta is a Spanish politician. He served as Deputy General of Álava from 1979 to 1983,the first officeholder since the abolition of the post in 1877. Originally a member of the Basque Nationalist Party,he was expelled from the party in 2002. Since then,he has been an independent politician linked to the Socialist Party of the Basque Country.
