Regionalist Party of the Leonese Country ( es, Partido Regionalista del País Leonés) is a regional

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Castilla y León Castile, Castille or Castilla may refer to: Places Spain *Castile (historical region), a vaguely defined historical region of Spain covering most of Castile and León, all of the Community of Madrid and most of Castilla–La Mancha *Kingdom of ...

, Spain. PREPAL strives to establish a separate autonomous community ( País Leonés or ''Autonomous Community of País Leonés'') for the provinces of

Salamanca Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritag ...

, Zamora and León, (parts of the old

Kingdom of León The Kingdom of León; es, Reino de León; gl, Reino de León; pt, Reino de Leão; la, Regnum Legionense; mwl, Reino de Lhion was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded in 910 when t ...

), now in the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. This movement is known as

Leonesism Leonesism (; es, Leonesismo) is a social and political regionalist movement in the geographical Region of León, composed by the provinces of León, Zamora and Salamanca, with the aim of giving greater relevance to the Region of León withi ...

. PREPAL was founded in 1980 by

Francisco Iglesias Carreño Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

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List of registered political parties in Spain Below are listed political parties registered at the Spanish Ministry of the Interior in 1976-200Note that: * The Ministry does not appear to remove registrations if parties are dissolved or become dormant and a large number of the groups mentioned ...

List of political parties in Spain This article serves as a list of the political parties in Spain. Spain has a multi-party system at both the national and regional level. Nationally, there are five dominant parties: Unidas Podemos, United We Can (Podemos (Spanish political party ...

List of active autonomist and secessionist movements Presented below is a list of lists of active separatist movements: *List of active separatist movements in Africa *List of active separatist movements in Asia *List of active separatist movements in Europe *List of active separatist movements i ...

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