Democracy and Catalonia ( ca, Democràcia i Catalunya, DiC) was a

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formed by Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC),

Democratic Left of Catalonia Democratic Left of Catalonia ( ca, Esquerra Democràtica de Catalunya, EDC) was a political party in Catalonia (Spain). EDC was founded in 1975 as the Catalan Liberal Party ( ca, Partit Liberal Català), and ideologically it defined itself as " rad ...

(EDC),

Democratic Union of Catalonia The Democratic Union of Catalonia ( ca, Unió Democràtica de Catalunya; , UDC), frequently shortened as Union ( ca, Unió; ), was a regionalist, Christian-democratic political party in the Catalonia region of Spain existing between 1931 and 2017 ...

(UDC) and Socialist Party of Catalonia–Regrouping (PSC–R) to contest the 1977 Spanish Senate election.

History

The origins of the Democracy and Catalonia alliance can be traced back to Socialist Party of Catalonia–Congress (PSC–C) secretary-general Joan Reventós's proposal in December 1976 for establishing a broad "Catalan agreement" ( ca, entesa catalana) comprising all

Catalanist Catalan nationalism is the ideology asserting that the Catalans are a distinct nation. Intellectually, modern Catalan nationalism can be said to have commenced as a political philosophy in the unsuccessful attempts to establish a federal state i ...

parties for the Spanish Senate 1977 election that would ensure a strong Catalan presence in the newly-elected parliament and in support of the Catalan Statute and of the restoration of the

Generalitat de Catalunya The Generalitat de Catalunya (; oc, label= Aranese, Generalitat de Catalonha; es, Generalidad de Cataluña), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia politically organizes its self-government. It is formed ...

. As the heavily crowded Catalan political space was in the process of reorganization ahead of the general election, speculation emerged in late March 1977 that talks were ongoing for a broad agreement of political parties within the centre ground of the political spectrum, including the Catalan Centre (CC), the Socialist Party of Catalonia–Regrouping (PSC–R),

(UDC), Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC),

(EDC), the Social Democratic Party of Catalonia (PSDC) and the

National Front of Catalonia The National Front of Catalonia (Catalan: ''Front Nacional de Catalunya'', FNC) was a Catalan separatist party which was active between 1940 and 1990. The FNC was created in 1940 by former members of the Estat Català and the Catalan Nationalis ...

(FNC); such an alliance was planned to be running under the "Democracy and Catalonia" label. While the Democracy and Catalonia alliance had been initially scheduled to comprise all Catalan democratic opposition parties within a joint candidacy of broad spectrum, on 3 May 1977 it came to be established by the parties forming the Democratic Pact for Catalonia (CDC, EDC, FNC and PSC–R) and the

Union of the Centre and Christian Democracy of Catalonia Union of the Centre and Christian Democracy of Catalonia ( ca, Unió del Centre i la Democràcia Cristiana de Catalunya, UCiDCC) was an electoral coalition formed in Catalonia in December 1976 to contest the Spanish Congress of Deputies election ...

(CC and UDC) electoral coalitions to the

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, excluding the parties that would go on to form the Agreement of the Catalans over the incorporation of the communist

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(PSUC) in the lists.

Composition

Electoral performance

Senate

References

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