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Teachers and employees from different fields get behind Sortu

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Supporters of the new political group formed by the Basque nationalist leftwing include the UPV's Iñaki Zabaleta. All have categorically rejected ETA violence.

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On Tuesday, the Basque nationalist leftwing took another step on the path to legalisation with the presentation of its newly formed political group Sortu (''create'' in Basque), which has explicitly rejected ETA violence.

The ten sponsors of the new formation, who on Wednesday will register the party with the Home Office, gave a press conference on Tuesday in which they revealed the party logo.

Among the sponsors are people from the academic field, as well as those from other professional spheres. They include University of the Basque Country professor, Iñaki Zabaleta.

During a press conference given on Tuesday morning in both Spanish and Basque, in which no direct questions were received from the media, the sponsors said they rejected ETA violence "without hesitation" and assured that they would not be "swallowed up".

Zabaleta, along with Euskaltegi Director Leintz Karmele Agirregabiria, defended the creation of a Basque state "within a European Union framework, via exclusively peaceful and political channels" and rejected "categorically and without hesitation" all violence "including that of ETA."

Furthermore, they stressed their right to be legal, denied that they are "a continuation" of any of the previous abertzale organisations (such as Batasuna) and indicated that they would shortly be deciding the structures on which their statutes would be based.

The ten sponsors are: UPV-EHU professor Iñaki Zabaleta; teachers Xabier Artola and Ester Hernandorena; Doctor of Geology, Maider Etxebarria; social worker, María Jesús Vélez; solicitor, José María Compains; Director of the Euskaltegi, Karmele Agirregabiria; trade unionist, Edu Burgos; administrator Sonia Respaldiza and Raquel Jausoro.

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