The Right to Decide

The Basque news outlet EITb has published the results of a survey that indicates a high percentage of Basques would like to exercise their right to decide the future of their nation, here you have it:

88% of the Basques believe they have the right to decide

Half of the Basques think that the Basque Country is a nation. The 45% will back the country's independence in a referendum. The data is included in a survey by Gizaker for Basque radio station radio Euskadi.

The survey that was carried out in October discloses that eight out of ten Basques believe that they have "the right to decide their future", a majority opinion in all the three territories of the autonomous region. Moreover, the 66% considers that the future should be "just a decision of the Basques", that's to say, that future should exclusively be defined by the Basques. Just two out of ten people think that future should be defined "among Basques and Spaniards".

In view of the possibility to carry out a referendum on independence, the 45% of those polled would support the matter while 25% would vote against it. The final result would be then in the hands of the undecided voters, since the 30% have not got clear their position or they just would not vote.

It is outstanding that half of the population (52%) considers the Basque Country to be a nation, being the figures for this topic in Navarre a 32% and in Iparralde (Northern Basque Country in the French State) a 34%.

The data regarding the feeling of belonging to the Basque Country is also remarkable. All citizens think that their province belongs to the Basque Country. According to the survey, 62% of the Basques state that there is no shadow of doubt that "Navarre is part of the Basque Country", although in Navarre this feeling is lower. A 49% of the Navarrans consider that Navarre is not part of the whole. The feeling of belonging is also greater in Iparralde.

Gizaker carried out the over-the-phone survey to 1,000 citizens from the autonomous region, Navarre and Iparralde between 18th and 25th October.

Let us remember now that as co-signers of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, both France and Spain must recognize the right of the Basque nation to decide its future.

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