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Constitutional Court overrules ban on Basque party

AP

05/22/2009

The higher court overturned an earlier lower court decision to prohibit the party from standing in the upcoming European elections.

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Spain''s Constitutional Court has overturned a lower court ruling barring a Basque party from fielding candidates in upcoming European parliamentary elections because of alleged links with the armed separatist group ETA.

A Constitutional Court statement issued Thursday said there is no evidence that Iniciativa Internacionalista was a front for the banned Basque nationalist party Batasuna or that it was run by ETA.

The Supreme Court used that argument last week to bar the party from the vote. Spain holds its leg of European parliament elections 7 June.

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