Communist Movement of Galicia ( Galician: ''Movemento Comunista de Galiza'', ''MCG'') was a

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political party created in

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during the last years of the dictatorship of Franco as the Galician section of the Communist Movement, although in practice the MCG acted as an independent party. The leaders of the MCG were Xesús Veiga Buxán and Carmen Santos Castroviejo. Unlike other sections of Spanish left-wing political parties, the MCG was close to the Galician nationalist movement and supported

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and national sovereignty for

History

During the transition, the MCG was part of the

Council of Galician Political Forces A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or na ...

(CFPG), along with the Galician Socialist Party (PSG), the Galician People's Union (UPG), the

Galician Social Democratic Party The Galician Social Democratic Party (PGSD, ''Partido Galego Social Demócrata'' in Galician language) was a Galician political party with a Galician nationalist and social democratic ideology. It was founded under the name of ''Galician Social ...

(PGSD) and the Carlist Party of Galicia. In the Spanish elections of 1977, the MCG supported the Galician Democratic Candidacy, a coalition of socialists, communists and Christian democrats to the

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. The MCG supported the

of the Galician people, promoting the "No" in the 1980 Statute of Autonomy referendum, since the organization considered the autonomy not enough. In the first Galician elections, in 1981, the MCG presented a list in coalition with the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), obtaining 4,858 votes (0.49%). In the elections to the Parliament of Galicia 1985 the candidacy of the MCG (without the LCR) gained only 1,327 votes (0.11%). In the municipal elections of 1987 and

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the MCG gained a town councilor in Padrón. In 1991 the MCG was integrated into a new group,

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along with the LCR, a group that a few years later joined the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG).

References

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