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. It also contested the 1999 European Parliament election.

PNV–EA
Founded13 March 1999
Dissolved31 August 2006
Merger ofPNV
EA
IdeologyBasque nationalism
Independence
Social democracy
Christian democracy
Social liberalism
Political positionBig tent

PNV and EA, the later of which had split from the former in 1986, reached an electoral coalition agreement on 13 March 1999, in order to counter the electoral ascendance of both the People's Party of the Basque Country and Euskal Herritarrok.[1] The alliance was disbanded after EA's leadership voted on 31 August 2006 not to preserve the coalition ahead of the 2007 local elections.[2][3]

Composition
Party
Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ/PNV)
Basque Solidarity (EA)

Electoral performance

Basque Parliament
Basque Parliament
Election Votes % # Seats +/– Leading candidate Status in legislature
2001 604,222 42.38% 1st
33 / 75
 6 Juan José Ibarretxe Coalition (PNV–EA)
Coalition (PNV–EA–EB; from September 2001)
2005 468,117 38.38% 1st
29 / 75
 4 Coalition (PNV–EA–EB)

Parliament of Navarre
Parliament of Navarre
Election Votes % # Seats +/– Leading candidate Status in legislature
1999 16,512 5.44% 6th
3 / 50
 1 Begoña Errazti Opposition
2003 22,824 7.43% 6th
4 / 50
 1 Opposition

European Parliament
European Parliament
Election Total Basque Country Navarre
Votes % # Seats +/– Votes % # Votes % #
1999 Within CN–EP
1 / 64
 0 392,800 33.93% 1st 17,030 5.70% 4th

References
  1. "PNV y EA sellan un pacto electoral para frenar al PP en el País Vasco". El País. 14 March 1999. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  2. "PNV-EA: Termina una coalición de siete años". La Vanguardia. 31 August 2006. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  3. "EA rompe su coalición electoral con el PNV y acudirá sola a las municipales". El País. 1 September 2006. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
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