Sortu
Sortu | |
|---|---|
| Secretary-General | Arkaitz Rodriguez |
| Founded | 9 February 2011 |
| Preceded by | Batasuna |
| Headquarters | Bilbao, Basque Country |
| Youth wing | Ernai |
| Membership (2018) | ≈10,000 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| National affiliation | EH Bildu EH Bai |
| European Parliament group | European United Left–Nordic Green Left |
| Trade union affiliation | Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak |
| Congress of Deputies | 1 / 23 Basque seats |
| Spanish Senate | 1 / 20 Basque seats |
| European Parliament | 1 / 61 Spanish seats |
| Basque Parliament | 12 / 75 |
| Parliament of Navarre | 4 / 50 |
| Website | |
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Sortu (English: Create) is a Basque socialist political party. Founded in February 2011, it is the first political party belonging to the Basque nationalist "abertzale left" that openly rejects any kind of political violence. Before Sortu, sections of the Basque nationalist left who rejected ETA's violence left the movement and founded another party, Aralar, to represent that element of the abertzale left.