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5 unusual facts about Basque Nationalist Party


Basque Nationalist Party

Out of their land and without help from the Republic the Basque Army surrendered to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontari through the so-called Santoña Agreement.

The celebration takes place in an open air arena (currently in Foronda, Álava), and lasts until nightfall.

Gourdou-Leseurre GL.30

A number of these were sold to the government of the Second Spanish Republic and to the Basque Nationalist Party.

Joan Villadelprat

Basque Nationalist Party

PNV

Partido Nacionalista Vasco, the Spanish acronym for the Basque Nationalist Party


Carlos Garaikoetxea

In 1985 nevertheless, major divergences with the direction of his party (Law of Historical Territories, personal clash with the president of the Basque Nationalist Party, Xabier Arzalluz, expulsion of all the organization in Navarre) created a major split inside EAJ-PNV and Garaikoetxea, leading one of the factions (with greater support in Guipuscoa, Navarre and Vitoria-Gasteiz, but not in Biscay nor the Araban countryside), he was replaced by José Antonio Ardanza in 1985.

Juan María Atutxa Mendiola

A member of the Basque Nationalist Party, he has been Head of the Department of Interior (1991–98) and President of the Basque Parliament (1998–2005).

Valle de Villaverde

In 1979, deputies (congressmen) Xabier Arzalluz of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and Juan María Bandrés of Euskadiko Ezkerra, affirmed that Article 8 of the then-new Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country was intended to integrate the enclave of Treviño into Álava and the enclave of Villaverde into Biscay.


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