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2019 Balearic Island Council Elections
The 2019 Balearic Island Council elections were held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th Island Councils of Mallorca and Menorca and the 4th Island Councils of Formentera and Ibiza. All 76 seats in the four Island Councils were up for election. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election. Opinion polls Island Council control The following table lists party control in the Island Councils. Gains for a party are displayed with the cell's background shaded in that party's colour. Islands Formentera Ibiza Mallorca Menorca See also *2019 Balearic regional election * Results breakdown of the 2019 Spanish local elections (Balearic Islands) References {{Balearic Islands elections Balearic 2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. There are two small islands off the coast of Mallorca: Cabrera (southeast of Palma) and Dragonera (west of Palma). The anthem of Mallorca is " La Balanguera". Like the other Balearic Islands of Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, the island is an extremely popular holiday destination, particularly for tourists from the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The international airport, Palma de Mallorca Airport, is one of the busiest in Spain; it was used by 28 million passengers in 2017, with use increasing every year since 2012. Etymology The name derives from Classical Latin ''insula maior'', "larger island". Later, in Medieval Latin, this became ''Maiorca'', "the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa Unió De Formentera
Sa Unió de Formentera ( en, The Union of Formentera, Sa Unió), is an electoral alliance of the island of Formentera that appeared in 2011 to contest the elections to the Island Council of Formentera and the elections to the Parliament of the Balearic Islands The Parliament of the Balearic Islands (Catalan: ''Parlament de les Illes Balears'') is the unicameral autonomous parliament of the Balearic Islands, one of the autonomous communities of Spain. The Parliament, composed of 59 elected seats, is l ... (in coalition with PP). Political parties in the Balearic Islands Formentera Political parties established in 2011 2011 establishments in Spain {{Spain-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actúa
Actúa (English language, English: ''Act'') is a Spanish left-wing political party founded by the ex-leader of United Left (Spain), United Left (IU) Gaspar Llamazares and the former judge Baltasar Garzón. History Actúa was registered as a political party in 2017, as the continuation of a political platform of the same name. Most of its original members are people from Izquierda Abierta, Open Left unhappy with the current direction of United Left (Spain), IU and members of the "Civic Coexistence" platform. The main promoters of the initiative are Gaspar Llamazares and Baltasar Garzón. The first manifesto of the organization was signed, among others, by José Antonio MartÃn PallÃn, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Cristina Almeida, Lina Gálvez, Teresa Aranguren, Carlos Berzosa, Luis GarcÃa Montero, Almudena Grandes and Antonio Gutiérrez. After Actúa was registered some of the signers, like Antonio Gutiérrez or MartÃn PallÃn, distanced themselves from the new party. In 2018 Actà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proposta Per Les Illes
Proposta per les Illes (Catalan for "Proposal for the Islands"), or simply El Pi ('' pi'' means pine in Catalan) is a liberal Balearic autonomist political party, formed in November 2012 from the merger of several nationalist and regionalist parties: Convergència per les Illes (the successor of the Majorcan Union), the Lliga Regionalista de les Illes Balears, the Menorcan Union and Es Nou Partit. The party's two main leaders are Jaume Font (former leader of the Lliga Regionalista) and Josep Melià (former leader of Convergència). As the merger of parties from Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, el PI has elected representatives on each of these three islands, including 6 mayors and 82 councillors in 34 municipalities. Ideology El Pi aims to seek political dialogue and moderation, rejecting what it considers dogmatism and political posturing, defining its values as centrist and autonomist. While defending the Spanish Constitution and the Balearic Islands' Statute of Autonomy, the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Left Of Catalonia
The Republican Left of Catalonia ( ca, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC; ; generically branded as ) is a Catalan independence movement, pro-Catalan independence, social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Catalonia, political party in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, with a presence also in Valencian Community, Valencia, the Balearic Islands and the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales (Northern Catalonia).Jaume Renyer Alimbau, ''ERC: temps de transició. Per una esquerra forta, renovadora i plural'' (Barcelona: Cossetà nia, 2008). It is also the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain in the territories known as Catalan Countries, focusing in recent years on the creation of a Catalan Republic in Catalonia proper. Its current president is Oriol Junqueras and its secretary-general is Marta Rovira. The party is a member of the European Free Alliance. ERC, a party of relevant Catalan politicians including France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proposta Per Eivissa
Proposta per Eivissa (, PxE) is a political coalition formed in Ibiza Ibiza (natively and officially in ca, Eivissa, ) is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. It is from the city of Valencia. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, in Spain. Its l ... in 2018. It was created ahead of the 2019 Balearic election and the 2019 local elections as an electoral alliance formed by Proposal for the Isles (El Pi), More Ibiza (Más Eivissa) and Insular Alternative (AL–in). Composition References Political parties in the Balearic Islands Political parties established in 2019 {{Spain-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ara Eivissa
Ara Eivissa (, Ara) is a political coalition formed in Ibiza in 2019. It was created ahead of the 2019 Spanish general election, the 2019 Balearic election and the 2019 local elections as an electoral alliance formed by Let's Win Ibiza (Guanyem), Republican Left of Catalonia (esquerra) and Equo Greens Equo (and formerly Q or eQuo) is a Spanish political party founded on 4 June 2011, when 35 Spanish green parties agreed to merge into Equo. It began as a foundation on 24 September 2010 with the goal of becoming "the seed and source of deb ... (eQuo). Composition References Political parties in the Balearic Islands Political parties established in 2019 Republican Left of Catalonia Unidas Podemos {{Spain-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizens (Spanish Political Party)
Citizens ( es, link=no, Ciudadanos ; ca, link=no, Ciutadans ; eu, link=no, Hiritarrak; gl, link=no, Cidadáns; shortened as Cs—C's until January 2017), officially Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (''Ciudadanos–Partido de la CiudadanÃa''), is a liberal political party in Spain. Founded in Catalonia in 2006, the party received 25.4% of votes and 36 deputies in the December 2017 Catalan regional election, making it the largest single party in the Parliament of Catalonia. Nevertheless, it has never taken power so its actual political stance remains a source of debate between supporters and adversaries, beyond a strong opposition to Catalan nationalism and the Catalan independence movement. The party used the phrase "Catalonia is my homeland, Spain is my country and Europe is our future" to outline the ideology which the party self-describes as postnationalist. In spite of that, it has been deemed by a variety of sources to profess a populist Spanish nationalist ideology. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Left Of The Balearic Islands
United Left of the Balearic Islands (, EUIB) is the Balearic federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left. Juan José MartÃnez Riera is the current General Coordinator.J. MoredaJuanjo MartÃnez, nuevo coordinador de EU: «La izquierda no ha estado a la altura tras el 20-D» Última Hora, 23/04/2016. The Communist Party of the Balearic Islands (PCIB-PCE, Balearic federation of PCE) is the major member of the coalition. Organization EUIB has a structure distributed by islands, although the "island groups" don't have a separate legal personality. The most important are those of Majorca (United Left of Majorca) and Menorca (Left of Menorca). See also *Communist Party of the Balearic Islands References External linksOfficial page Balearic Islands The Balearic Islands ( es, Islas Baleares ; or ca, Illes Balears ) are an archipelago in the Balearic Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The archipelago is an autonomous co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podemos (Spanish Political Party)
Podemos (, translated in English as "We Can"), * ca, Podem, * gl, Podemos, is a left-wing populist political party in Spain. Part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, it was founded in January 2014 by political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión and other academics in the aftermath of the 15-M Movement protests against inequality and corruption. In the 2014 European Parliament election in Spain, Podemos won 8.0% of the vote and five seats. The newly founded party's big impact received significant media attention, having defied the odds and polls, while major parties lost out. By October 2014, Podemos was the second largest political party in Spain by number of members after the People's Party. On 9 May 2016, Podemos formed the Unidos Podemos electoral alliance with the United Left, Equo, and regionalist left-wing parties. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unidas Podemos
Unidas Podemos (), formerly called Unidos Podemos () and also known in English as United We Can, is a democratic socialist electoral alliance formed by Podemos, United Left, and other left-wing to far-left parties in May to contest the 2016 Spanish general election. The alliance's official pre-agreement was announced on 9 May 2016 after weeks of negotiations. It re-styled to the feminine form of its name ahead of the April 2019 Spanish general election. Part of the anti-austerity movement, it advocates direct democracy, federalism, and republicanism in Spain. After the November 2019 Spanish general election, it formed a coalition government with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. History Background While campaigning for the 2015 Spanish general election, the United Left (IU) promoted the creation of, and later joined, the Now in Common (''Ahora en Común, AeC'') platform, seeking a wide alliance with other left-wing parties. After Podemos rejected invitations to join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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