Galician Coalition ( Galician: Coalición Galega, CG) is a political party in

Galiza Galicia (; gl, Galicia or ; es, Galicia}; pt, Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense, and ...

with a

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and centrist ideology. Since 2012 CG is part of the coalition Compromiso por Galicia.

History

Coalition

CG was born as an electoral coalition for the municipal elections of 1983, formed by the Partido Galeguista (PG) and ex-members of the UCD after the disaster of the party in the

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. In A Coruña and

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the candidacy was called "Partido Galeguista-Converxencia de Independientes de Galicia" and in

Ourense Ourense (; es, Orense ) is a city and capital of the province of Ourense, located in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is on the Camino Sanabrés path of the Way of St ...

"Partido Galeguista-Centristas de Ourense". In the Province of Pontevedra the PG and the ex-members of the UCD presented separated lists.

Foundation and evolution of the party

The good results of the elections (125,000 votes) in 1984 led to coalition to transform itself into a moderate, centrist nationalist party, but maintaining a clientelist structure in rural areas of the provinces of Ourense and Lugo, inherited from the UCD. In the elections of 1985, under the leadership of

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and with the active support of

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, CG won 163,425 votes (13%). After the elections there were two sectors in the party: one that wanted a pact with the right ( People's Alliance) and other that wanted a pact with the left (

Socialists' Party of Galicia The Socialists' Party of Galicia ( gl, Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia, PSdeG–PSOE) is a centre-left political party in Galicia, Spain. It is the Galician affiliate of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). It defines itself as a Gal ...

and the

Galician Socialist Party-Galician Left Galician may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Galicia (Spain) ** Galician language ** Galician people ** Gallaeci, a large Celtic tribal federation who inhabited Gallaecia (currently Galicia (Spain) * Something of, from, or related ...

). The sector that wanted a pact with People's Alliance (AP) was the majority, and finally CG entered the government of Xerardo Fernández Albor. In the Spanish elections of 1986 CG obtained one deputy (Senen Bernárdez), the first

deputy in the Congreso de los Diputados since the Second Republic.

Split and decline

In January 1987 the most nationalist and

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sectors of CG, led by

and Xosé Henrique Rodríguez Peña, left the party and formed the

Galician Nationalist Party Galician may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Galicia (Spain) ** Galician language ** Galician people ** Gallaeci, a large Celtic tribal federation who inhabited Gallaecia (currently Galicia (Spain) * Something of, from, or related to ...

(which would eventually join the Galician Nationalist Bloc). To attend the 1987 municipal elections CG formed the

Galician Progressive Coalition Galician Progressive Coalition ( Galician: Coalición Progresista Galega, CPG) was a centre-right Galician political coalition formed for the municipal elections of 1987. Member parties * Galician Coalition * People's Democratic Party * Liberal ...

, with the Democratic Popular Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party, gaining the 11.07% of the vote and 607 councilors. Following the departure of Xosé Luís Barreiro of the

People's Party of Galicia The People's Party of Galicia ( Galician/Spanish: ''Partido Popular de Galicia'' , PP or PPdeG ) is a conservative political party in Galicia, Spain. It is the Galician affiliate of the Spanish People's Party. Prior to the 2005 Galician elect ...

in September 1987, CG entered the new Galician government led by the socialist Fernando González Laxe. In the elections of 1989 CG suffered a strong electoral setback to get only 48,208 votes (3.6%) and 2 seats. In the municipal elections of 1991 CG made a coalition with Centrists of Galicia, known as

Galician Nationalist Convergence Galician Nationalist Convergence (CNG, ''Converxencia Nacionalista Galega'' in Galician language) was a political coalition and, later, a political party in Galicia formed by Galician Coalition and Centrists of Galicia.In some towns of Ourense ...

in the provinces of A Coruña,

and Pontevedra, while in

CG presented common lists with the Democratic and Social Centre. In the elections of 1993 CG lost parliamentary representation and only obtained 6,098 votes (0.42%).

New projects and dissolution

In 2005 CG was one of the parties that created Terra Galega. In 2012 Terra Galega entered Compromiso por Galicia (CxG), but left months later due to the poor results in the Galician elections of the same year and disagreements in the political line. CG chose to continue in CxG and left Terra Galega. The integration in CxG led to the dissolution of CG.

Election results

Galician Parliament

Congress of Deputies

Local councils

References

Bibliography

* Beramendi, X.G. and

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(1996): ''O nacionalismo galego''.

A Nosa Terra ''A Nosa Terra'' (in en, Our Land, italic=yes) was a Galician newspaper in Galician language, first founded in 1907 in A Coruña, Spain. It has been published in different periods. Periods 1907 - 1908 ''A Nosa Terra'', was a bilingual Span ...

, Vigo * Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais, Vigo

External links

Official website
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