Canary Islands Now ( Spanish: ''Ahora Canarias'') is a

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy. Left-wing politics typically involve a concern for those in soci ...

and Canarian separatist

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founded in February 2019 in order to compete in the

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and the Canarian regional election of that same year. The alliance is formed by three parties:

Canarian Nationalist Alternative Canarian Nationalist Alternative ( es, Alternativa Nacionalista Canaria, ANC) is a Canarian left-wing nationalist political party, born in 2006 after a split of the People's Alternative for the Canary Islands (APC). Objectives The ANC seeks indep ...

( Spanish: ''Alternativa Nacionalista Canaria, ANC),''

National Congress of the Canaries The National Congress of the Canaries ( es, Congreso Nacional de las Canarias; CNC) is a separatist political party in the Canary Islands, Spain. Ideology and goals CNC supports independence for the Canary Islands. The CNC was founded in 1986 by A ...

( Spanish: ''Congreso Nacional de las Canarias''; CNC) and the Unity of the People (Spanish: ''Unidad del Pueblo'', UP). The parties involved in Ahora Canarias are also part of the

Ahora Repúblicas Republics Now ( es, Ahora Repúblicas, ca, Ara Repúbliques, eu, Orain Errepublikak, gl, Agora Repúblicas, an, Agora Republicas,

alliance formed for the

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. Ahora Repúblicas is formed from

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, left-wing

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and independentist parties from

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...

, the

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, Galicia, Asturias,

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and the

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

. In the 2023 Canarian regional election and the 2023 general election Ahora Canarias is forming a alliance with the Communist Party of the Canarian Peoples.

Election results

References

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