Majorca Socialist Party

The Socialist Party of Majorca ( ca, Partit Socialista de Mallorca, PSM; ), officially PSM–Entesa after the incorporation of Entesa per Mallorca (ExM) in February 2013, is a political party in Majorca, Spain. The PSM defines itself as socialist, environmentalist, and Catalan nationalist, from a Majorcan point of view.

Ideology

It advocates the self-determination and the freedom of the Balearic Islands, with social justice, to increase the identity and the self-government of the archipelago. It also calls for a closer relationship with the other Catalan Countries, now forbidden to be achieved in a confederation of three Spanish autonomous communities by the Spanish constitution(art.145). Therefore, its political ascription is a Majorcan political party, regionalist or progressive- stateless nationalist, environmental, socialist and democratic.

History

The PSM emerged from the Socialist Party of the Islands (PSI) in December 1977. Unlike most of the other Spanish socialist parties, the PSI refused to join the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

In 1989, it strengthened an alliance with Socialist Party of Menorca (PSMe) and Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement of Ibiza (ENE), gathering together other local progressive and nationalist parties. The name of the alliance was Nationalist Left of the Balearic Islands Federation (EN), renamed in 1998 as PSM–Nationalist Agreement (PSM–EN). Its representation in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands was between 7% and 15% of the votes.Balearic Islands election results, Historiaelectoral.com
accessed 18 April 2011

Usually as an opposition party, PSM was part of the Government of the Island Council of Majorca from 1995 until 2003 and from 2007 until 2011, and of the Government of the Balearic Islands from 1999 until 2003 and from 2007 until 2011.

In the Spanish general election, 2004, 2004 general election, PSM took part in a coalition in the Balearic Islands (Congress of Deputies constituency), Balearic Islands with United Left of the Balearic Islands, United Left (EUIB), Confederation of the Greens, The Greens (EV), and Republican Left of Catalonia, Republican Left (ERC), as Progressives for the Balearic Islands. This coalition obtained 40,289 votes (12%). However, no representation in the Cortes Generales was obtained.

In 2007, this coalition was enlarged, forming the new coalition Bloc for Majorca (Bloc). The coalition got 4 MPs (14%) in the Balearic Parliament (2 of them from the PSM). After negotiations, PSM and the other Bloc's parties decided to enter the autonomous government, with Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB) and Majorcan Union (UM), leaving the People's Party of the Balearic Islands, People's Party (PP) in the opposition.

In 2008, the party decided to change its allies for the Spanish general election, 2008, general election to UM, ERC and ExM. The coalition refused to join with EUIB. However, 29% of the members wanted to follow the former alliance with EUIB and EV. Most of them were members of the PSM–Left Nationalist Youth. With less than 30,000 votes, no representation in the Cortes Generales was obtained. Also in 2008, the PSM became a full member of the European Free Alliance (EFA).

In 2011, the Bloc broke and the party decided to form an electoral coalition with IniciativaVerds (IV) and ExM for the Balearic regional election, 2011, regional election. The coalition got 36,149 votes and 4 seats in the Parliament. Later that year, the coalition was enlarged by the addition of the new ecologist party Equo, eQuo, and participated in the Spanish general election, 2011, 2011 general election, getting 31,378 votes and no representation.

In March 2016, Bel Busquets was elected Secretary General, in substitution of Biel Barceló. In December 2018, the party was "frozen" and its political activities were transferred to Més per Mallorca (Més).

Electoral performance

Parliament of the Balearic Islands

Congress of Deputies candidates

*Spanish general election, 1977, 1977: Francesc Obrador (with the Unitat Socialista coalition)
*Spanish general election, 1982, 1982: Joan Perelló
*Spanish general election, 1986, 1986: Mateu Morro
*Spanish general election, 1989, 1989: Enric Ribas
*Spanish general election, 1993, 1993: Sebastià Serra
*Spanish general election, 1996, 1996: Maria Antònia Vadell
*Spanish general election, 2000, 2000: Cecili Buele
*Spanish general election, 2004, 2004: Nanda Ramon (with the Progressistes per les Illes Balears coalition)
*Spanish general election, 2008, 2008: Pere Sampol (with the Unitat per les Illes coalition)
*Spanish general election, 2011, 2011: Miquel Ensenyat (with the PSM-IniciativaVerds-Entesa-EQUO coalition)
*Spanish general election, 2015, 2015: Antoni Verger (Més per Mallorca coalition)
*Spanish general election, 2016, 2016: Antoni Verger (Unidos Podemos, Units Podem Més coalition)

References

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1976 establishments in Spain
Democratic socialist parties in Europe
European Free Alliance
Left-wing nationalist parties
Political parties established in 1976
Political parties in the Balearic Islands
Socialist parties in Spain