Patxi Lopez (L), Socialist Party candidate for the Basque premiership, meets Maite Aranburu (2nd L), Nekane Erauskin (2nd R) and Karmele Berasategi, representatives of the Communist Party of the Basque Lands (EHAK), at Socialist headquarters in Bilbao May 10, 2005. Lopez, the leader in the Basque Country of Spain's ruling Socialist Party said on May 5 he was seeking the Basque premiership in a challenge to the region's moderate nationalist leader Juan Jose Ibarretxe. REUTERS/Vincent West VPW/SP/CCK/VP