Eusko Abertzale Ekintza
Acción Nacionalista Vasca (Basque Eusko Abertzale Ekintza, EAE - ANV ) is a Basque party. It is Basque- nationalist left and enters for an independent and socialist Basque Country. Your shortcut is EAE - ANV. The Spanish government decreed in January 2008, the suspension of all party activities because they want to have links with the banned Basque party Batasuna. On September 16, 2008 ANV was declared by the Supreme Court of dissolved and prohibited any further operation as a party.
History
EAE - ANV was founded in the 1930s, as a secular spin-off of the conservative, Catholic Basque Nationalist Party ( Partido Nacionalista Vasco - PNV ).
In the Spanish general elections in February 1936, she joined the Popular Front government, the Frente Popular. In the final phase of the Second Spanish Republic, they presented with Tomás Bilbao even a Minister of the Spanish Government.
With the Spanish Civil War, members of the EAE - ANV joined the Basque army and fought on the side of the Spanish Republic against General Franco. 550 members of the party died in the Spanish Civil War in the fight against Franco's units. After the victory of Franco's troops, the party was banned in 1939.
During the Franco dictatorship EAE - ANV was then forced into illegality. After the end of Francoism to EAE - ANV was 1977 re-register as a party. She participated in the first democratic elections in 1977 in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa y Vizcaya - but they won less than one percent of the vote.
At times was EAE - ANV part of the Basque Herri Batasuna party coalition.
Modern History and Prohibition in 2008
EAE - ANV participated for the first time in May 2007 local and regional elections in the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country. The reason was that EAE - ANV wanted to give the citizens of the Basque Country, the option to choose a left Independence Party. ASB (German Union of Socialist patriots ) have been banned - Earlier, the party Batasuna and its successor was Abertzale Socialists Batasuna.
In 133 out of 257 communities across the Basque Country, the lists of EAE - ANV were banned. In response EAE - ANV called on the population to ignore the ban on their electoral lists and still vote for the party. Where EAE - ANV was forbidden, this was a direct call, "invalid" to choose - but with the reference to EAE - ANV. Total EAE - ANV received 200,000 votes, or 14 percent of the population. Make, despite the ban of many of its local lists 45 mayors and 437 local offices - 337 in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and Navarre in 100.
The Spanish Government, chaired by the Social Democratic Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (PSOE ) requested a ban of EAE - ANV, because she sees connections to the party Batasuna. In January 2008, its activities were suspended for the time being, the party later was therefore to the Spanish parliamentary elections a few weeks do not participate. The Supreme Court followed the request of the government and banned the party on 16 September 2008.
Following the ban on Batasuna party, EHAK - PCTV and EAE - ANV no party now exists except Aralar from the spectrum of left- independence movement more that could run in the next municipal and regional elections. From the party ban about 200,000 voters are affected, who can no longer select the preferred party of them.
Given the current ban warned the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Martin Scheinin, in May 2008 warned that Spain extending the scope of the concept of terrorism to areas which have nothing to do with terrorism, and demanded that the Spanish Government, an independent review of the current criminal Code (Art. 572-580 ).