Politics of the Basque Country

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Politics of the Basque Country refers to the political structures, parties, institutions, and autonomy arrangements that govern Spain’s Basque Autonomous Community and shape its nationalist and regionalist dynamics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political system
politics of a region
appliesTo Basque Country
surface form: Basque Autonomous Community
basedOn Spanish Constitution of 1978
Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country (1979)
surface form: Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country
country Spain
hasAutonomousCommunity Basque Country
surface form: Basque Country (autonomous community)
hasAutonomyStatute Statute of Guernica
hasCapital Vitoria-Gasteiz
hasConstituency Biscay
Gipuzkoa
Álava
hasCrossBorderDimension Northern Basque Country
surface form: Northern Basque Country (France)
hasElectoralSystem proportional representation
hasEqualSeatAllocationPerProvince true
hasEuropeanContext European Union multi-level governance
hasExecutiveBody Basque Government
hasFiscalRegime foral system
hasGovernmentHeadTitle Lehendakari
hasHistoricalActor ETA
hasHistoricalConflict Basque conflict
hasIdeologicalCurrent Spanish constitutionalism
federalism
regionalism
separatism
hasKeyAgreement Concierto Económico
hasKeyInstitution Basque Government
Basque Parliament
Constitutional Court of Spain
Diputaciones Forales
Ertzaintza
Juntas Generales
Lehendakari
Spanish government
surface form: Spanish central government
hasKeyIssue degree of autonomy
fiscal sovereignty
language normalization
memory of political violence
self-determination
hasLegislature Basque Parliament
hasLevelOfGovernment autonomous community
municipal councils
provincial foral institutions
hasMainIdeologicalCurrent Basque nationalism
hasMajorParty Basque Nationalist Party
EH Bildu
Unidas Podemos
surface form: Elkarrekin Podemos

People's Party (Spain)
surface form: People's Party of the Basque Country

Spanish Socialist Workers Party
surface form: Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left

Sumar coalition (Basque branch)
hasNationalistParty Aralar
surface form: Aralar (historical)

Basque Nationalist Party
EH Bildu
Eusko Alkartasuna
Sortu
hasOfficialLanguages Basque
surface form: Basque language

Spanish language
hasPeaceProcessMilestone ETA ceasefire of 2011
ETA dissolution of 2018
hasPoliceForce Ertzaintza
hasPower culture and language policy
education policy
healthcare management
policing
tax collection
hasRegionalCooperation Euroregion Aquitaine-Euskadi
surface form: Euroregion Aquitaine–Euskadi–Navarra
hasUnionistParty Citizens (Spanish political party)
surface form: Ciudadanos (Basque branch, marginal)

People's Party (Spain)
surface form: People's Party of the Basque Country

Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left
isInfluencedBy European integration
Francoist Spain
surface form: Francoist centralism (historical)

transition to democracy in Spain
legislatureType unicameral parliament
usesElectoralMethod d’Hondt method
surface form: D'Hondt method

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Assembly House of Gernika category Politics of the Basque Country
Juntas of Gernika partOf Politics of the Basque Country
this entity surface form: Basque institutional system