Eusko Abertzale Ekintza
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Eusko Abertzale Ekintza - Acción Nacionalista Vasca (EAE-ANV) (Basque Nationalist Action) was the first Basque Nationalist political party to exist that presented itself on a socialist platform.
It was formed in the 1930, as a reaction to the merge of the Basque Nationalist Party with conservative Comunión Nacionalista Vasca. It played a minor role during the Republic and in the Civil War. Since the 1960s, it has run to elections inside the electoral platforms of the Basque National Liberation Movement. It did not belong to KAS though. Thus, when another Basque pro-independence party, Batasuna, was banned by the Spanish Supreme Court in 2002 after its close relationship to the terrorist group ETA was proven, EAE-ANV stayed as a legal party.
Nevertheless, in the 2007 municipal and autonomic elections in Spain, nearly half of the lists of EAE-ANV were declared illegal, because a significant portion of the candidates on them had previously run for Batasuna, so the Supreme Court resolved that they continued an illegal party (Batasuna), and therefore were not eligible. However, EAE-ANV took part in the campaign, and received some 187,000 votes (many of which were considered null). Among the illegalized lists are those of Bilbao, San Sebastian and Vitoria; but not those of Pamplona city council, where EAE-ANV has two representatives.
As of February 2008, the Spanish government declared EAE-ANV illegal as a precautionary measure to prevent them from taking part in the General Election .[1]
