Eusko Alkartasuna Basque party highly divided

The social-democratic party founded in 1980 as a split of the Basque Nationalist Party takes part of the pro independence coalition EH Bildu. Its role in the coalition is the basic problem. The party's general secretari resigned in June being replaced by Joseba Gezuraga. The direction defends to blend EA inside EH Bildu but a critical faction wants to keep the coalition ans EA as a party. The founder of EA, Karlos Garaikoetxea, has alerted that the party could disappear and has dennounced that EA has less level in EH Bildu now than in 2011.  Garaikoetxea, former Basque Country president, has called for a extraordinary congress. Meanwhile the critical factio n has denounced in court the
Gezuraga's leadership to hide databases to militants before the party's primary elections.