Drago Project ( es, Proyecto Drago) is a political party of the

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created by former Podemos secretary Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez on 24 October 2022. The party plans to run for the regional elections in Spain in 2023.

Background

On 20 January 2021, the

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indicted Rodríguez for an alleged crime of attack against authority and misdemeanor or misdemeanor injury for incidents that occurred in 2014. The high court began the procedure once the

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accepted the request requested in December 2020. In October 2021, he was convicted of attacking authority, having to pay a fine of 540 euros in compensation for avoiding imprisonment and being disqualified from holding public office. He was disqualified as a deputy on October 22, 2021, after a few weeks of controversy between the Supreme Court and the Congress of Deputies. On October 23, he announced that he was leaving Podemos. In January 2023, Rodríguez announced that the party had joined the

Más País Más País, or More Country, is a political party in Spain. It was an electoral platform formed by Íñigo Errejón around Más Madrid in order to contest the November 2019 Spanish general election. The party is positioned on the left-wing of the ...

coalition of left-wing and regionalist parties.

Coalition(s)

During February 2023 the party formed a coalition comprised by four parties. However, in the following month, Canaries Now left the alliance.

Ideology

It claims to be a "Canarian obedience" project, which should not depend on any ideology.

Electoral performance

Parliament of the Canary Islands

References

{{Reflist Political parties established in 2022 Political parties in the Canary Islands 2022 establishments in Spain Nationalist parties in Spain Socialist parties in Spain Left-wing nationalist parties Canarian nationalist parties