Communist Party of the Basque Homelands

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The Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (Spanish: Partido Comunista de las Tierras Vascas, Euskera: Euskal Herrialdeetako Alderdi Komunista, acronym: EHAK) 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 of the banned abertzale lists of Aukera Guztiak and, therefore it is alleged, Batasuna. EHAK registered for elections in 2002 at both the Basque Country and the Spanish level [1].

The party had been legally registered in 2002 but had no known activity until 2005. Like those parties, representatives of EHAK have refused to explicitly condemn the ETA attacks. The People's Party requested that the Spanish government conducts investigations to ban EHAK too, though the State Legal Service (Abogacía General del Estado) and the Attorney General's Office (Fiscalía General del Estado) found no evidence to support legal actions against the party. Batasuna asked their supporters to vote for EHAK.

In the Basque elections of April 17, 2005, EHAK obtained 150.188 votes (12,5%), entering the Basque Parliament with nine seats.^[1]

The party was unknown before these elections and, as it had no outstanding personality related to illegal Herri Batasuna, Euskal Herritarrok or Batasuna was allowed to run in these elections.