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The Basque Parliament ( Castillian Spanish ''Parlamento Vasco'', Basque '''''Eusko Legebiltzarra''''') is the autonomous legislative body of the Basque Country and the elected assembly before which the Basque Government is responsible. The seat of the Basque Parliament is in the Basque capital, Vitoria-Gasteiz . The current Basque Parliament, operating within the framework of the Statute Of Autonomy Of The Basque Country , first met on 31 March 1981 in Guernica . It is composed of seventy-five deputies representing citizens from the three provinces of the Basque autonomous community. Each province – Alava-Araba, Guipuzcoa-Gipuzkoa and Vizcaya-Bizkaia – elects the same number of deputies despite having very different levels of population. Sessions of the Basque Parliament are conducted in both Basque and Spanish. Thanks to an electoral norm aimed at promoting gender equality within the parliament, the members of parliament today include forty women and thirty-five men. See also
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