Guernica – the symbolic centre of Basque freedoms – on 31 March 1980.[1]
Later in 1980 it started meeting at the premises of the Council of
in Guernica
.
It is composed of seventy-five deputies representing citizens from the three provinces of the Basque autonomous community. Each province (Álava, Gipuzkoa and Biscay) elects the same number of deputies, despite their having very different levels of population. This was chosen to earn support from Álava and Navarre, less populated territories. Still, Navarre did not join the autonomous community.
The elections are held using
election threshold
was 5% in each province. Sessions of the Basque Parliament are conducted in both Basque and Spanish, with translation services.
Elections and referendums in the Basque Country
