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Excerpt from report by Spanish newspaper ABC website, on 24 March
[Report by Nieves Colli: "Supreme Court's '61st Chamber,' Albeit Divided, Prevents Sortu From Running in Elections"]
Sortu [Rise up; Basque separatist party] will not be able to register as a political party with the Interior Ministry. This was decided yesterday evening by the "61st chamber" of the Supreme Court, which considers the new party to be sponsored by the "Basque nationalist left" to be the successor to outlawed Batasuna [Unity. ETA's political wing] and, far from having broken with ETA [Basque Fatherland and Liberty],...