National Democracy ( es, Democracia Nacional, DN) is a

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, founded in 1995. It is modelled on the

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(RN) of France, and grew indirectly out of several defunct parties like the Spanish Circle of Friends of Europe (

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) group and ''Juntas Españolas''. Until 2018, its leader was Manuel Canduela Serrano, a former member of ''Acción Radical'', a group active in the

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. He was also a vocalist in the so-called "identity" rock group Division 250. The party's current leader is Pedro Chaparro. In the 2004 general election, the party got 15,180 votes throughout Spain, amounting to 0.06% of the total vote. In the 2008 general election, it got 12,588 votes, amounting to 0.05% of the vote. That dropped to 0.01% of the vote in the 2011 general election, with 1,876 votes. In

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the party gained three town councillors: two in Tardajos and one in

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. In

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it governed with the People's Party. In the 2011 local elections, one town councillor was elected under the DN banner in

. In the 2015 local elections, the DN lost the seat in Tardajos but gained a new town councillor in

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, which it lost in 2019.

History

The party was formed in January 1995 by members of the far-right groups CEDADE and the Juntas Españolas. CEDADE had been a

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group led by the prominent

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figure and Nazi collaborator Léon Degrelle. The Juntas Españolas had been a

party, which attempted to copy the image and strategy of the

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. The party's first president was Juan Enrique Peligro Robledo. Later, Manuel Canduela, a founding member of the

musical group Division 250, became président in 2004. He had previously directed the party's youth wing, the Democracia Nacional Joven. In July 2013, the ND joined forces with

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, Alianza Nacional, Nudo Patriota Español and the

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in the La España en Marcha initiative; that year, on Catalonia's national day, members of those parties staged altercations at the Blanquerna Cultural Center of

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to protest Catalan independence. The party was a founding member of the far-right European political party, the Alliance for Peace and Freedom, which was founded in 2015 with other members including

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and the National Democratic Party of Germany. In 2019, National Democracy formed an electoral coalition, ADÑ Identidad Española, with FE-JONS,

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and

to contend in the

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Ideology

The party has been described by Spanish political observers as

, adopting many of the features of the

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movement. The party espouses

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rhetoric and

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directed towards non-Spanish citizens. In territorial politics, it defends the unity of Spain, is staunchly

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and opposes Catalan independence. The party is

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and supports the dissolution of the

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Elections results

Congress of Deputies and Senate

European Parliament

References

External links

Official website of Democracia Nacional
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