| Office: | Member of the Basque Parliament for Biscay |
| Termstart: | 7 June 2005 |
| Termend: | 6 January 2009 |
| Party: | EHAK |
Maite Aranburu Olabarrieta is a Spanish Basque politician who served in the Basque Parliament from 2005 until 2009, representing the Biscay constituency as a member of the Communist Party of the Basque Homelands.
Maite Aranburu Olabarrieta, a web manager[1] and the leader of the Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (EHAK), was elected to the Basque Parliament following the 2005 Basque regional election.[2] [3] Elected to represent the Biscay constituency, she campaigned on a pro-independence platform, vowed to give a voice to the recently banned political party Batasuna, and refused to condemn the terrorist activities of ETA. Eight other EHAK candidates were also elected, a "surprise" performance for the recently formed party.[4]
In parliament, Aranburu sat as a member of the Left Nationalist Group and was a member of the Committee on Women and Youth. EHAK was officially banned in 2008, forcing Aranburu and the other deputies to sit as members of a different party.[5] Aranburu left parliament in 2009. Later that year, Aranburu was forced to testify before a judge of the who was investigating the relationship between EHAK "with the alleged crimes of collaboration with a terrorist organization, illegal association, fraud of subsidies and embezzlement of public funds ... to contribute to the activity and allegedly terrorist purposes of Batasuna-ETA".[6]