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Mon 05 May 2011Basque party to stand in this month's elections following Spanish court order
THE LATEST Basque pro-independence franchise, the coalition Bildu, packed out Pamplona’s Anaitasuna football stadium on Saturday night. The speakers were launching their campaign for local and provincial elections, coming up on May 22nd.
Until midnight two days earlier, however, the organisation did not know whether it would be permitted to run candidates at all. The supreme court declared last month that Bildu was a front for Batasuna, the radical party banned eight years ago for links to the terrorist group Eta, and ruled its electoral lists illegal.
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