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Ferrol En Común
Ferrol en Común (Ferrol in Common or Ferrol Together, ''FeC'') is a grassroots movement and political coalition in the city of Ferrol, Galicia whose goal is to build a left-wing and participative political electoral alliance. FeC is supported by political parties like Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood (Anova-IN), United Left (EU) and the local ''circle'' of Podemos in the city of Ferrol. History Jorge Suárez, a member of United Left, was elected as the candidate for the 2015 local elections. FeC was the second most voted party in said elections (7,142 votes, 21.98%), winning 6 seats in the city council. Suárez was elected as mayor, with the votes of FeC, the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG-PSOE) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG). In the 2019 local elections FeC won only 3 councillors and lost the mayorship of the city to Ángel Mato (PSdeG-PSOE). Councillors (2019-2023) * Jorge Juan Suárez Fernández: Law graduate and civil servant. Member of United Left of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Suárez (Galician Politician)
Jorge Suárez may refer to: * Jorge Suárez (field hockey) (born 1942), Argentine Olympic hockey player * Jorge Suárez Cáceres (born 1976), Puerto Rican politician * Jorge Suárez (footballer) (1945–1997), soccer player from El Salvador * Jorge A. Suárez (1927-1985), Argentinian linguist {{Hndis, Suarez, Jorge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Local Elections, 2019
The 2019 Spanish local elections were held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect all 66,979 councillors in the 8,131 municipalities of Spain and all 1,038 seats in 38 provincial deputations. The elections were held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities, as well as elections in the three foral deputations of the Basque Country, the four island councils in the Balearic Islands, the seven island cabildos in the Canary Islands and the European Parliament. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), invigorated from its general election win the previous month, emerged as the largest political party in the elections overall for the first time since 2007, scoring first place in the popular vote for the first time since 2003 and achieving its largest margin of victory over the People's Party (PP) since the 1991 elections. Conversely, the PP scored its worst result in local elections in Spain since the People's Alliance result in 1987, but managed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marea De Vigo
Marea de Vigo (''Tide of Vigo'' in Galician language) is a left-wing citizen movement and political alliance active in the city of Vigo History Marea de Vigo was created as a left-wing "popular unity" candidacy to the municipal elections of May 2015. Rubén Pérez Correa, a member of the United Left (EU) was elected as the candidate. The candidacy is supported by EU, Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood, independents and some members of Podemos. It's one of the many "popular unity" candidacies formed by left-wing political parties in Galicia and Spain to the Spanish local elections, 2015; like Marea Atlántica, Ahora Madrid, Barcelona en Comú Barcelona en Comú (Catalan for "Barcelona in Common") is a citizen platform launched in June 2014 that is currently governing in minority in the City of Barcelona. Its policy agenda includes defending social justice and community rights, promotin ..., Zaragoza en Común or Málaga Ahora. Marea de Vigo was the 3rd most voted list in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marea De Pontevedra
MAREA is a 6,600 km (4,000 mile) long transatlantic communications cable connecting the United States with Spain. Owned and funded by Microsoft and Meta Platforms, but constructed and operated by Telxius, a subsidiary of the Spanish telecom company Telefónica, it is the "highest-capacity submarine cable in the world" with a system design capacity of 200 terabits per second. History In May 2016, Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius announced the MAREA project, saying that it would provide the Eastern United States, most of whose internet traffic flows through New York, with "a more efficient path not only to Europe but to Africa, the Middle East, and even Asia". According to Microsoft's Director of Global Network Strategy for Cloud Infrastructure and Operations, one impetus for the project was sparked by the service disruptions caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Construction began shortly afterwards, in August 2016, and was completed in September 2017, connecting Virgin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compostela Aberta
Compostela Aberta ( en, Open Compostela) is a grassroots movement and political coalition in the city of Santiago de Compostela that runs a left-wing "popular unity" candidacy to the municipal elections of May 2015. Martiño Noriega, a member of Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood (Anova) was elected as the candidate. The candidacy is supported by EU, Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood, Equo, Podemos, Espazo Ecosocialista Galego and independents. It's one of the many "popular unity" candidacies formed by left-wing political parties in Galicia and Spain to the Spanish local elections, 2015; like Marea Atlántica, Ahora Madrid, Barcelona en Comú, Marea de Vigo or Málaga Ahora. History The members of the candidacy were elected, in addition to mayor Martiño Noriega, were María Rozas (financial management consultant and member of United Left), Jorge Duarte (architect, former president of the College of Architects of Galicia), Branca Novoneyra (writer and choreographer), Xan Duro ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Breakdown Of The 2019 Spanish Local Elections (Galicia)
This is the results breakdown of the 2019 Spanish local elections, local elections held in Galicia (Spain), Galicia on 26 May 2019. The following tables show detailed results in the autonomous community's most populous municipalities, sorted alphabetically. Opinion polls City control The following table lists party control in the most populous municipalities, including provincial capitals (shown in bold). Gains for a party are displayed with the cell's background shaded in that party's colour. Municipalities A Coruña :''Population: 244,850'' Ferrol :''Population: 66,799'' Lugo :''Population: 98,025'' Ourense :''Population: 105,505'' Pontevedra :''Population: 82,802'' Santiago de Compostela :''Population: 96,405'' Vigo :''Population: 293,642'' References {{Galician elections Results breakdown of the 2019 Spanish local elections, Galicia Results breakdown of Spanish local elections in Galicia, 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Breakdown Of The 2015 Spanish Local Elections (Galicia)
This is the results breakdown of the 2015 Spanish local elections, local elections held in Galicia (Spain), Galicia on 24 May 2015. The following tables show detailed results in the autonomous community's most populous municipalities, sorted alphabetically. Opinion polls Overall City control The following table lists party control in the most populous municipalities, including provincial capitals (shown in bold). Gains for a party are displayed with the cell's background shaded in that party's colour. Municipalities A Coruña :''Population: 244,810'' Ames :''Population: 29,975'' Arteixo :''Population: 30,857'' Cambre :''Population: 24,029'' Carballo :''Population: 31,288'' Culleredo :''Population: 29,434'' Ferrol :''Population: 70,389'' Lalín :''Population: 20,158'' Lugo :''Population: 98,560'' Narón :''Population: 39,574'' Oleiros :''Population: 34,563'' Ourense :''Population: 106,905'' Pontevedra :''Population: 82,946'' Redondela :''Population: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrol, Spain
Ferrol () is a city in the Province of A Coruña in Galicia, on the Atlantic coast in north-western Spain, in the vicinity of Strabo's Cape Nerium (modern day Cape Prior). According to the 2021 census, the city has a population of 64,785, making it the seventh largest settlement in Galicia. With Eume to the south and Ortegal the north, Ferrol forms the Ferrolterra comarca, and together with A Coruña forms the second largest conurbation in Galicia, with a total population of 640,000 in 2016. The harbour, for depth, capacity and safety, is not equalled by many in Europe. The entrance is very narrow, commanded by forts, and may even be shut by a steccado. The city has been a major naval shipbuilding centre for most of its history, being the capital of the Spanish Navy's Maritime Department of the North since the time of the early Bourbons. Before that, in the 17th century, Ferrol was the most important arsenal in Europe. Today, the city contains some of the major shipbuildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galicia Hoxe
''Galicia Hoxe'' is a Galician digital newspaper from Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St ... written entirely in Galician. Founded in January 1994, it was formerly called ''O Correo Galego''. It changed its name to ''Galicia Hoxe'' in May 2003, and ceased publication on 28 June 2011, due to financial reasons, but remains an active internet news source. External linksWeb site {{Galicia-stub Mass media in Galicia (Spain) Galician-language newspapers Mass media in Santiago de Compostela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Coruña (Parliament Of Galicia Constituency)
A Coruña ( es, La Coruña, en, link=yes, Corunna) is one of the four constituencies ( es, circunscripciones) represented in the Parliament of Galicia, the regional legislature of the autonomous community of Galicia. The constituency currently elects 25 deputies. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Spanish province of A Coruña. The electoral system uses the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation, with a minimum threshold of five percent. Electoral system The constituency was created as per the Statute of Autonomy for Galicia of 1981 and was first contested in the 1981 regional election. The Statute provided for the four provinces in Galicia—A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra—to be established as multi-member districts in the Parliament of Galicia, with this regulation being maintained under the 1985 regional electoral law. Each constituency is entitled to an initial minimum of 10 seats, with the remaining 35 being distributed in proportion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galician Regional Election, 2009
The 2009 Galician regional election was held on Sunday, 1 March 2009, to elect the 8th Parliament of the autonomous community of Galicia. All 75 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with a regional election in the Basque Country. The election saw the People's Party (PP) retake control of the parliament from the coalition of the Socialists' Party of Galicia (PSdeG–PSOE) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), with a majority of 1 seat. As a result, Alberto Núñez Feijoo became the new President of Galicia. Overview Electoral system The Parliament of Galicia was the devolved, unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Galicia, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the regional Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a regional president. Voting for the Parliament was on the basis of universal suffrage, which compri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galician People's Front
The Galician People's Front ( gl, Frente Popular Galega) is a Galician political organization with a socialist and independentist ideology. History After the Galician People's Union (UPG) accepted the participation of the Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) in the Galician Parliament in 1986, 13 members of its Central Committee led by Mariano Abalo and Xan Carballo left the party and created the Communist Collective. On 25 July 1986, the group was transformed into the Communist Party of National Liberation (PCLN). Later, the 3rd National Assembly of the BNG expelled the group because they gave support to Herri Batasuna. In 1987, PCLN and Galiza Ceibe-OLN, along with other small organizations, created the FPG. In June 1989, they suffered a split as the sectors that supported the armed struggle of the EGPGC broke away and formed Assembleia do Povo Unido. In the Elections for the Galician Parliament 2001, the group obtained 3,176 votes (0.3%), in the Elections for the Spanish Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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