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

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with a

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and

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ideology. Since 2012 CG is part of the coalition

Compromiso por Galicia Commitment to Galicia (Spanish: ''Compromiso por Galicia'', CxG) is a Galician political party with a Galician nationalist, progressive ideology. Ideology CxG proposed to reform the Galician electoral law to create a single Galician constituen ...

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 1982 elections. In

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and

Lugo Lugo (, ; la, Lucus Augusti) is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. It is the capital of the Lugo (province), province of Lugo. The municipality had a population ...

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

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"Partido Galeguista-Centristas de Ourense". In the

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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,

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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 CiU, 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 (

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and the

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). 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

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since the Second Republic.

Split and decline

In January 1987 the most

and progressive sectors of CG, led by

and Xosé Henrique Rodríguez Peña, left the party and formed the Galician Nationalist Party (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

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, 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

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. 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 in the provinces of

and

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, 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

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. In 2012 Terra Galega entered

(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

. 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 Núñez Seixas, X.M. (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 ...

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

External links

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