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Kaixo Jon, kaixo Basque-l members,

I'll try to clear your mind on those doubts you have about the Basque
electoral system:

-The reason why the number of voters does not correspond with the number of
seats in Parliament has to do with the fact that all three provinces choose
the same number of MPs. Alava has 5 times less people than Biscay, which
means that it is a lot easier to get a seat if you are an Alava-only party
(Unidad Alavesa). Besides, IU-EB is basically a Biscayan party, which
explains why it gets penalised at the end.

-The newsletter might give the impression that some voters left IU and PSE
to vote for nationalist parties, which is a usual "marketing sentence".
It did not actually happen that way. PSE did in fact increase the number of
votes, though not as much as they expected. What happened is that many more
people voted than ever before. Most of those votes seem to have gone to EH,
on the nationalist side, but especially, to PP on the other side. Most
parties did, in fact, not lose support (in number of votes) but lost it
relatively (% of total).

-It is very hard to say that most of the voters of nationalist parties are
for independence. I would prefer to say that they favour the exercise of
the right to self-determination. It is clear that EH voters and most of EA
supporters would be pro-independence, but I am not so sure about PNV, which
keeps being the main Basque party. There are both Atutxa or Arregi
(pro-autonomy) and Arzalluz and Egibar (pro-independence) inside PNV. I
would say that they are in the middle (not pro-independence, but more
autonomy), a quite realist position.

You can find more information on the results in this websites:
-http://www.elecciones.net
-http://www.telecinco.es/elecciones


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