Andalusian Liberation (in

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: ''Liberación Andaluza''; LA) was an Andalusian nationalist and independentist

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a ...

. In the 1986 Andalusian elections LA got 5,996 votes (0.18%). The platform was dissolved in 1989, at least as a "political movement", because of its limited success.

Ideology

LA mixed the ideas of

Blas Infante Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas (5 July 1885 – 11 August 1936) was a Spanish Andalusist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist, known as the father of Andalusian nationalism ''(Padre de la Patria Andaluza)''. Infante was a G ...

with Islamic Neo-andalusism, represented by the Yama'a Islámica de Al-Andalus. LA proposed an official status for the

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in the region. LA was openly independentist.Minahan, James (2002). ''Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: A-C 1.'' Greenwood Publishing Group. . LA thought that

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

was not a religion itself but the expression of the Andalusian cultural "genius and style". LA was

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, advocating an expanded

comprising the current autonomous regions of

and

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, the

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province of Badajoz The province of Badajoz () is a province of western Spain located in the autonomous community of Extremadura. It was formed in 1833. It is bordered by the provinces of Cáceres in the north, Toledo, Ciudad Real in the east, Córdoba in the so ...

, the Sierra de Álcaraz in Castilla-La Mancha, the Portuguese

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and

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. LA was against the Treaty of Granada (1491), Capitulations of Granada and an alleged process of colonization of

by Spain.

External links

Website in memory of LA

References

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