28 March 2012
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Euskadi/Spain:
Illegalisation of lists for May municipal elections
Critical article that analyses the frenzied judicial activity
leading to the illegalisation of a number of electoral lists
of Acción Nacionalista Vasca (ANV) and Abertzale Sozialisten
Batasuna-Eusko Abertzale Ekintza (ASB), preventing them from
running in the municipal and regional elections held on 27 May
2007.
The ASB candidature was illegalised as a whole, as it was considered
to have been born under the auspices of Batasuna (illegalised
by the Ley de Partidos), whereas over half (133 out of 246) of
the electoral lists of ANV-EAE were deemed to have been "contaminated"
or "infiltrated" by Batasuna members after in-depth
scrutiny of whether lists featured people involved in any of
its different electoral brands used in the past, even when the
party was legal. The analysis of the judicial process of illegalisation
argues that the decisions "have a low legal quality…
are inspired by political considerations… and contravene
the right of active suffrage", depriving Basques the to
vote for an option that is deep-rooted in society.
EHwatch: Candidatures declared illegal in the Basque Country,
May 2007; available at: http://www.ehwatch.org
Ilegalización
de candidaturas electorales en Euskal Herria (Spanish)
Candidatures declared
illegal in the Basque Country (English)
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