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
Founded	13 March 1999
Dissolved	31 August 2006
Merger of	PNV EA
Ideology	Basque nationalism
Political position	Big tent
Politics of Basque Country

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

Regional parliaments

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.