The Spanish Constitutional Court has authorized a Basque nationalist alliance, retoquée several times because of alleged links with ETA, to nominate candidates for municipal elections on May 22, announced Friday a spokesman called this training Bildu. The decision, widely expected, would help repair ties between the ruling Socialists in Madrid and its parliamentary allies of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), which had clashed on the issue.
Bildu, which includes classified Basque separatist parties and militants left without a label, was formed in April to replace another alliance Sortu, considered illegal in March after trying to take over from Batasuna, the banned political wing of the ETA. Unlike Batasuna Sortu has renounced violence and its launch came after the announcement by ETA of a cease-fire on Jan.
10. But the Spanish government requires that the armed group lays down its arms and dissolve. On 1 May, the Spanish Supreme Court had refused to Bildu the right to participate in municipal elections, but the alliance had filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court. 
Bildu, which includes classified Basque separatist parties and militants left without a label, was formed in April to replace another alliance Sortu, considered illegal in March after trying to take over from Batasuna, the banned political wing of the ETA. Unlike Batasuna Sortu has renounced violence and its launch came after the announcement by ETA of a cease-fire on Jan.
10. But the Spanish government requires that the armed group lays down its arms and dissolve. On 1 May, the Spanish Supreme Court had refused to Bildu the right to participate in municipal elections, but the alliance had filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court.
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