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Arnaldo Otegi Mondragón (born 6 July 1958) is a Basque politician, currently in prison, who in February 2013 was elected as Secretary General of abertzale Basque separatist party Sortu.〔(Basques from Spain, France launch new ‘independence’ party )〕 He has been a member of the Basque Parliament for both Herri Batasuna and Euskal Herritarrok. These two parties and Batasuna were banned in 2003 for having links to ETA. He was one of the key negotiators during the last unsuccessful peace talks in Loiola and Geneva, in 2006.〔(John Carlin Interviews Arnaldo Otegi )〕 He has been one of the leading figures in Batasuna's change of strategy and ETA's end.〔("The independentist strategy is incompatible with armed violence" )〕 He is currently in prison accused of trying to re-organize Batasuna.〔(Judicial auto in Spanish (PDF) )〕 Before joining politics he had been convicted of being an ETA member and taking part in several actions, amongst which was the kidnapping of the Basque entrepreneur Luis Abaitúa.〔(Detenidos los presuntos secuestradores de Luis Abaitua )〕 In the 1990s he started his political career and he quickly gained prominence within the Basque separatism movement, and became the leader of Batasuna after the whole National Committee of Herri Batasuna was arrested. However the party was declared illegal in 2003 due to its relationship with ETA. In June 2007 he was convicted of "praising terrorism",〔(Judicial auto in Spanish (PDF) )〕 imprisoned, and then released from prison in August the following year. In October 2009 he was arrested for attempting to put Batasuna back together, and was given a ten-year sentence. In May 2012 his sentence was reduced to 6½ years by the Supreme Court of Spain when they decided that he was not part of ETA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20120509/supremo-rebaja-condena-otegi-diez-seis-anos-medio-querer-reconstruir-batasuna/523620.shtml )〕 He remains an important figure within the Basque separatist movement. ==Biography== Otegi was born on 6 July 1958 in Elgoibar, (Gipuzkoa), in what later would become the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country (Spain). He holds a university degree in philosophy and literature, is married and a father of two children. He was a militant of the abertzale left movement from a young age. In 1977 he fled to the French Basque Country, after the Spanish authorities discovered his membership of ETA (pm),〔 a separatist organization seeking to establish a Marxist–Leninist Basque state. He was actively involved in several operations and in 1987 the French police arrested him, before allowing him to be extradited to Spain. He was found guilty of taking part in the kidnapping of the Basque entrepreneur Luis Abaitua and was sentenced to six years in prison.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eitb.eus/es/noticias/politica/detalle/737755/biografia-arnaldo-otegi-eta-busqueda-paz/ )〕 He spent three years imprisoned and was released in 1990.〔 On leaving prison he decided to change how he would seek Basque independence and so entered politics. In the Basque parliamentary election in 1994 he was the seventh placed candidate on the party list of Herri Batasuna (HB) for Gipuzkoa. HB won six seats at the election with Otegi initially failing to be elected but on 27 September 1995 he became a member of the Basque Parliament when he substituted a party colleague. In November 1997 the Spanish Supreme Court found 23 senior members of Herri Batasuna guilty of collaboration with ETA, jailing them for seven years,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/172539.stm )〕 and in the resulting power vacuum Joseba Permach and Arnaldo Otegi were chosen to become the new provisional leadership of Herri Batasuna. The sentence was overturned by the Spanish Constitutional Court in 1999.〔(Basque leaders freed )〕 Since then Otegi has been the major spokesman for the movement, first in Herri Batasuna, later in Euskal Herritarrok and finally in Batasuna.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arnaldo Otegi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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