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2001 Basque regional election, the Glossary

The 2001 Basque regional election was held on Sunday, 13 May 2001, to elect the 7th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community.^[1]

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2001 in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
2001 regional elections in Spain
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Regional elections in the Basque Country (autonomous community)

Abertzale left

Abertzale left (Ezker abertzalea, Izquierda abertzale) is a term used to refer to the parties or organizations of the Basque nationalist/separatist left, stretching from democratic socialism to communism.

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Alavese Unity

Alavese Unity (Spanish: Unidad Alavesa) was a political party in the Basque Country based in the province of Álava, that existed between 1989 and 2005.

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Arnaldo Otegi

Arnaldo Otegi Mondragón (born 6 July 1958) is a politician from the Basque Country who has been the General Secretary of Basque nationalist party EH Bildu since 2017.

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Askatasuna

Askatasuna (from the Basque word meaning "Freedom") is a Basque political party registered on 31 August 1998, outlawed in 2009 by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional under the 2002 Political Parties Law.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma) is the first sub-national level of political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

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Álava

Álava (in Spanish) or Araba, officially Araba/Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Álava, former medieval Catholic bishopric and now Latin titular see.

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Álava (Basque Parliament constituency)

Álava (Araba) is one of the three constituencies (circunscripciones) represented in the Basque Parliament, the regional legislature of the Basque Autonomous Community.

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The Basque Country (Euskadi; País Vasco), also called the Basque Autonomous Community, is an autonomous community in northern Spain.

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Basque Country independence

Basque independence is the principle and a movement for autonomy or self government for the Basque Country, independent of the Government of Spain and the Government of France.

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Basque Government

The Basque Government (Eusko Jaurlaritza, Gobierno Vasco) is the governing body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain.

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Basque nationalism

Basque nationalism (eusko abertzaletasuna; nacionalismo vasco; nationalisme basque) is a form of nationalism that asserts that Basques, an ethnic group indigenous to the western Pyrenees, are a nation and promotes the political unity of the Basques, today scattered between Spain and France.

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Basque Nationalist Action

Basque Nationalist Action (Eusko Abertzale Ekintza, Acción Nacionalista Vasca, EAE–ANV) is a Basque nationalist party based in Spain.

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Basque Nationalist Party

The Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ; Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV; Parti Nationaliste Basque, PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English, is a Basque nationalist and regionalist political party.

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Basque Parliament

The Basque Parliament (Basque: Eusko Legebiltzarra, Spanish: Parlamento Vasco) is the legislative body of the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain and the elected assembly to which the Basque Government is responsible.

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Biscay

Biscay (Bizkaia; Vizcaya) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Vascongadas, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay.

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Biscay (Basque Parliament constituency)

Biscay (Bizkaia, Vizcaya) is one of the three constituencies (circunscripciones) represented in the Basque Parliament, the regional legislature of the Basque Autonomous Community.

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Carlist Party (1970)

The Carlist Party (Partido Carlista, Partit Carlí, Karlista Alderdia, Partido Carlista, Partíu Carlista; PC) is a Spanish political party that considers itself as a successor to the historical tradition of Carlism.

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Christian democracy

Christian democracy is a political ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics.

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Closed list

Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively vote for only political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

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Conservative liberalism

Conservative liberalism, also referred to as right-liberalism, is a variant of liberalism combining liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or simply representing the right wing of the liberal movement.

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Constitution of Spain

The Spanish Constitution (Constitución Española) is the supreme law of the Kingdom of Spain.

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D'Hondt method

The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in proportional representation among political parties.

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Devolution

Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.

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Electoral alliance

An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections.

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Electoral threshold

The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of all the votes cast that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature.

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ETA (separatist group)

ETA, an acronym for ("Basque Homeland and Liberty", Encyclopaedia Britannica 20 October 2011 or "Basque Country and Freedom"), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region.

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Euskal Herritarrok

Euskal Herritarrok (Basque Citizens, EH) was a Basque independentist and socialist political party in the Basque Country.

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Eusko Alkartasuna

Eusko Alkartasuna (Basque Solidarity; Solidaridad Vasca; Solidarité basque) is a Basque nationalist and social-democratic political party operating in Spain and France.

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Gipuzkoa

Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa; Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country.

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Gipuzkoa (Basque Parliament constituency)

Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa) is one of the three constituencies (circunscripciones) represented in the Basque Parliament, the regional legislature of the Basque Autonomous Community.

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Grouping of electors

Grouping of electors is a group of citizens temporarily associated with the goal of presenting a candidature to a particular election.

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Herri Batasuna

Herri Batasuna (Popular Unity; HB) was a far-left Basque nationalist coalition in Spain.

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Humanist Party (Spain)

The Humanist Party (Partido Humanista) is a Spanish political party founded in 1984 and is a member of the Humanist International.

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Jaime Mayor Oreja

Jaime Mayor Oreja (born 12 July 1951) is a former Spanish conservative politician of the People's Party.

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Juan José Ibarretxe

Juan José Ibarretxe Markuartu (born 15 March 1957) is a former president of the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain.

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Landslide victory

A landslide victory is an election result in which the victorious candidate or party wins by an overwhelming margin.

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Lehendakari

The President of the Basque Government (Eusko Jaurlaritzako lehendakaria, presidente del Gobierno Vasco), usually known in the Basque language as the Lehendakari (lehendakari, lendakari), is the head of government of the Basque Autonomous Community.

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Majority

A majority is more than half of a total.

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Ministry of the Interior (Spain)

The Ministry of the Interior (MIR) is a department of the Government of Spain responsible for public security, the protection of the constitutional rights, the command of the law enforcement agencies, national security, immigration affairs, prisons, civil defense and road traffic safety.

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Motion of no confidence

A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion of confidence and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office.

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Parliamentary group

A parliamentary group, parliamentary caucus or political group is a group consisting of members of different political parties or independent politicians with similar ideologies.

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Party of the Democratic Karma

Party of the Democratic Karma (Partido del Karma Democrático) is a Spanish joke party founded by the publishers of the magazine Karma dice (Karma says), a satirical publication.

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People's Party of the Basque Country

The People's Party of the Basque Country (Partido Popular del País Vasco or Partido Popular de Euskadi, PP; Euskadiko Alderdi Popularra, EAP) is the regional section of the People's Party of Spain (PP) in the Basque Country.

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Percentage point

A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference between two percentages.

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PNV–EA

The Basque Nationalist Party–Basque Solidarity alliance (English for Partido Nacionalista Vasco–Eusko Alkartasuna) was the electoral coalition formed by the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) to contest local and regional elections in the Basque Country (as PNV–EA) and Navarre (as EA–PNV) between 1999 and 2006.

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Political party

A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.

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Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.

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Provinces of Spain

A province in Spain.

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Revolutionary socialism is a political philosophy, doctrine, and tradition within socialism that stresses the idea that a social revolution is necessary to bring about structural changes in society.

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Snap election

A snap election is an election that is called earlier than the one that has been scheduled.

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Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and supports a gradualist, reformist and democratic approach towards achieving socialism.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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The Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (Euskadiko Alderdi Sozialista – Euskadiko Ezkerra, Partido Socialista de Euskadi – Euskadiko Ezkerra, PSE-EE) is a social-democratic political party in the Basque Country that acts as the regional affiliate of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

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Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country of 1979

The Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country of 1979 (Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoko Estatutua; Estatuto de Autonomía del País Vasco), widely known as the Statute of Gernika (Gernikako Estatutua; Estatuto de Guernica), is the legal document organizing the political system of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country' (Basque: Euskadiko Autonomi Erkidegoa) which includes the historical territories of Alava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa.

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Strategic voting

Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's results.

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Unicameralism

Unicameralism (from uni- "one" + Latin camera "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one.

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United Left–Greens

United Left–Greens (Ezker Batua–Berdeak, EB–B) was a left wing environmentalist political party in Spain.

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Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the "one person, one vote" principle.

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1984 Basque regional election

The 1984 Basque regional election was held on Sunday, 26 February 1984, to elect the 2nd Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. 2001 Basque regional election and 1984 Basque regional election are regional elections in the Basque Country (autonomous community).

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1998 Basque regional election

The 1998 Basque regional election was held on Sunday, 25 October 1998, to elect the 6th Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community. 2001 Basque regional election and 1998 Basque regional election are regional elections in the Basque Country (autonomous community).

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1999 Basque foral elections

The 1999 Basque foral elections were held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 6th General Assemblies of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Basque_regional_election

Also known as 2001 Basque parliamentary election, Basque Country parliamentary election, 2001, Basque Parliament election, 2001, Basque parliamentary election, 2001, Basque regional election, 2001.

, Revolutionary socialism, Snap election, Social democracy, Socialism, Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left, Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country of 1979, Strategic voting, Unicameralism, United Left–Greens, Universal suffrage, 1984 Basque regional election, 1998 Basque regional election, 1999 Basque foral elections.

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See also

2001 regional elections in Spain

May 2001 events in Europe

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