Basque Country (autonomous community)

This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Basque Country (autonomous community) Capital Vitoria-Gasteiz Official languages Basque and Spanish Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 14th  7 234 km²  1,4% Population  â€“ Total (2005)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 7th  2 124 846  4,9%  293,73/km² Demonym  â€“ English  â€“ Spanish  â€“ Basque  Basque  vasco/a euskal herritar, euskaldun GDP GDP/Cápita 30. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Basque_Country. ...

Autonomous communities of Spain Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country See also: Politics of Spain Ibarretxe Plan Autonomous communities of Spain. ... Politics of Spain takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, whereby the President of the Government is the head of government and of a pluriform multi-party system. ...

President: Juan José Ibarretxe The President of the Basque Country is referred to as Lehendakari (literally, firstlier) in Basque, or Eusko Jaurlaritzako Lehendakari (President of the Basque Government); the Spanish title is Presidente del Gobierno Vasco. ... Juan José Ibarretxe Juan José Ibarretxe Markuartu (born May 15, 1957) is a Basque politician. ...

Basque Autonomous Parliament

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Elections Spanish General Elections: 1977 - 1979 - 1982 - 1986 - 1989 1993 - 1996 - 2000 - 2004 Basque Regional Elections: 2001 2005 Referenda: Autonomy Statute (1979) - NATO (1986) European Constitution (2005) Won by a Mr Martin J Hollerwatch of 34 Clackton Road, Cumberbatch-On-Sea (El Partido Malvado - The Evil Party) through a sliding majority poll of fifty to something. ... Results for the 1979 Spanish general election Reference El País official webpage (spanish) Congreso de españa official webpage (spanish) ... PSOE and PSC presented two different candidatures: PSOE in Spain and PSC (Catalan Social Party) only in Catalunya. ... References El País official webpage (spanish) http://www. ... External links Official results Categories: Elections in Spain ... External links Official results Categories: | ... External links Official results Categories: Elections in Spain ... Legislative elections were held in Spain on March 12, 2000. ... Map of Spains electoral circumscriptions, and the parties leading in each circumscription in the election for the Congress of Deputies Legislative elections were held in Spain on March 14, 2004. ... On 20 February 2005 a consultative referendum was held in Spain to ask whether the country should ratify the proposed Constitution of the European Union. ...

Political parties: Aralar Basque Nationalist Party Batasuna Communist Movement of Euskadi Communist Party of the Basque Territories (EHAK) Communist Party of Euskadi Eusko Alkartasuna Socialist Party of Euskadi Zutik Former political parties: Basque Nationalist Republican Party Democracia Cristiana Vasca Euskadiko Ezkerra Euskal Ezkerra Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia HASI Herritarren Zerrenda Aralar is a Basque nationalist political group in Spain. ... The Basque Nationalist Party is a political party in the Basque region of Spain. ... Batasuna (Unity) is a Basque political party based mainly in Spain but with a French presence, which is presumed to be associated with the Basque illegal armed group ETA. It is part of the Basque National Liberation Movement which includes social organizations, trade unions, youth (Jarrai and Gazteriak, now merged... Communist Movement of Euskadi (in Basque: Euskadi Mugimendu Komunista, in Spanish: Movimiento Comunista de Euskadi) was originally the branch of the Communist Movement (MC) in Basque Country, Spain. ... The Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (Spanish: Partido Comunista de las Tierras Vascas, Euskera: Euskal Herrialdeetako Alderdi Komunista, acronym: EHAK-PCTV) is a communist nationalist party in the Basque Country, that had limited electoral activities prior to 2005, but rose to national prominence when its leadership adopted the program... Communist Party of Euskadi - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Eusko Alkartasuna, Basque and Spanish regional political party, translated as Basque Solidarity and abbreviated as EA, is a party which describes itself as a Basque national, democratic, popular, progressive and non-denominational party. ... Zutik symbol Zutik is a political party in Basque Country, Spain. ... Euskadiko Ezkerra (Basque Country Left, in Basque) or EE was a Spanish Basque socialist political organisation. ... Euskal Ezkerra (Basque Left) was a political party in Euskadi, Spain. ... The Herritarren Zerrenda is a Basque political party in Spain and France. ...

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The Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country is the legal document organizing the political system of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country' (Basque: Euskadiko Autonomi Elkartea) which includes the "historical territories" of Alava, Biscay and Guipuscoa. It forms the region into one of the autonomous communities envisioned in the Spanish Constitution of 1978. It is also known as the Statute of Gernika (Spanish: Estatuto de Guernica), after the city where its final form was approved on December 29, 1978. It was ratified by referendum on October 25, 1979, despite an abstention of more than 40% of the electorate. The statute was accepted by the lower house of the Spanish Parliament on November 29 and the Spanish Senate on December 12. Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Capital Vitoria-Gasteiz Official languages Basque and Spanish Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 14th  7 234 km²  1,4% Population  â€“ Total (2005)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 7th  2 124 846  4,9%  293,73/km² Demonym  â€“ English  â€“ Spanish  â€“ Basque  Basque  vasco/a euskal herritar, euskaldun GDP GDP/Cápita 30. ... lava (Basque Araba, Spanish lava) is a province of northern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... Vizcaya province Vizcaya (Basque Bizkaia) is a province of northern Spain, in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... Guipúzcoa province Guipúzcoa (Basque Gipuzkoa, Spanish Guipúzcoa, in English sometimes as Guipuscoa) is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ... The Spanish Constitution of 1978 is the culmination of the Spanish transition to democracy. ... This article is about the city in Spain; the Pablo Picasso painting of the same name is covered in the article Guernica (painting) Guernica or Guernica y Luno (Basque Gernika-Lumo, pronounced in SAMPA [gernika]) is a small city in the Spanish Basque Country that was the meeting place... December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... The Spanish Senate (Spanish: Senado) is the upper house of the Cortes Generales, Spains legislative branch. ...

It established a system of parliamentary government, in which the president or lehendakari is elected by the Basque Autonomous Parliament. Election is by universal suffrage and parliament consists of 75 deputies, 25 from each of the three Historic Territories of the community. The parliament is vested with powers over a broad variety of areas, including agriculture, industry; from culture, arts and libraries, to tax collection, policing, and transportation. Basque and Castilian Spanish are official languages. Alternative meanings: Parliamentary system, Parliament (band), Parliament (cigarette). ... The President of the Basque Country is referred to as Lehendakari (literally, firstlier) in Basque, or Eusko Jaurlaritzako Lehendakari (President of the Basque Government); the Spanish title is Presidente del Gobierno Vasco. ... Universal suffrage (also general suffrage or common suffrage) consists of the extension of suffrage to all adults, without distinction as to race, sex, belief, or social status. ... Basque (in Basque: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ... Spanish () or Castilian () is an Iberian Romance language. ...

The Ibarretxe Plan is a proposal to revise the statute so as to amplify Basque autonomy put forward by the ruling PNV. The Basque Nationalist Party is a political party in the Basque region of Spain. ...

The statute allows for Navarre to join the Community if that is the will of the Navarrese. The equal representation of the provinces regardless of actual population was a wink to Alava and Navarre, the least populated and least prone to Basque nationalism of the provinces. However the Navarrese society seems content with its current Amejoramiento del Fuero. Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community in Spain. ... The Gernika oak is a symbol of Basque freedoms. ...

Earlier statutes

The Basque provinces maintained a great degree of self-government under their charters. After the Second Carlist War, the Fueros were abolished and substituted by the Ley Paccionada. During the Second Spanish Republic, the Carlists and nationalists agitated for autonomy. The Statute of Estella did not achieve enough support. The fuero is a Spanish legal term and concept; there is a similar Portuguese term, the foral. ... The Carlist Wars in Spain were the last major European civil wars in which pretenders fought to establish their claim to a throne. ... Flag of the Second Spanish Republic This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Carlism was a conservative political movement in Spain, purporting to establish an alternative branch of the Bourbons in the Spanish throne. ...

Another proposal was approved by the Republic already in the Spanish Civil War. Its effectivity was limited to the Republic-controlled areas of Biscay and Guipuscoa. Combatants Spanish Republic CNT UGT POUM Soviet Union International Brigades Spanish State Falangists Carlists Fascist Italy Nazi Germany Commanders Manuel Azaña Francisco Largo Caballero Juan Negrín Francisco Franco The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, was a conflict in which the...

After the surrendering of the Basque Army in 1937, the statute was abolished. However, Francisco Franco allowed the continuation of a limited self-government for Alava and Navarre, thanking their support for his uprising. Francisco El Caudillo Franco. ...

It is on the republican statute and the Alavese institutions that the current Statute of Gernika takes its legitimacy.

Sources

• Iban Bilbao, The Basque Parliament and Government, Basque Studies Program Newsletter, Issue 27, 1983.

See also

• Autonomous communities of Spain
• Spanish transition to democracy