Spain's justice minister said Wednesday he wants to outlaw two Basque separatist parties on grounds that they are part of the banned wing of the militant group ETA.
Such a move would bar the two parties from fielding candidates in Spanish general elections scheduled for March 9.
The minister, Mariano Fernandez Bermejo, told a news conference he would ask the Cabinet on Friday to authorize legal proceedings to outlaw the two parties _ Basque Nationalist Action and the Communist Party of the Basque Lands.
Spanish courts would make the final decision on barring them.
ETA's political wing, Batasuna, was outlawed by the Supreme Court in …
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