Ezker Batua - Berdeak

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Ezker Batua - Berdeak (Basque for United Left - Greens, EB) is a political party in Spain. It is the representative of United Left in the Basque Autonomous Community. Is was founded in 1986 as the Basque federation of United Left.

It has been member of the Basque Government for 8 years (between 2001 and 2009) with Juan José Ibarretxe (Basque Nationalist Party) as lehendakari. It is currently in the opposition and has one MP in the Basque Parliament, Mikel Arana, his general coordinator. Javier Madrazo was in office as general coordinator for most of the life of the party (from 1994 to 2009).

EB obtained its better results in the 1994 Basque elections, fist time accessing the Basque Parliament, with six seats (93.291 votes; 9.15%). In 2009 it only obtained 36.134 votes (3.51%).

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