Por Andalucía ( en, "For Andalusia") is an

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n-based

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formed by Podemos,

United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (. IULV–CA) is the Andalusian federation of the Spanish left wing political and social movement United Left. Toni Valero is the current General Coordinator. It is a current part of the electoral ...

(IULV–CA),

Equo Greens Equo (and formerly Q or eQuo) is a Spanish political party founded on 4 June 2011, when 35 Spanish green parties agreed to merge into Equo. It began as a foundation on 24 September 2010 with the goal of becoming "the seed and source of deb ...

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(AV),

Más País Más País, or More Country, is a political party in Spain. It was an electoral platform formed by Íñigo Errejón around Más Madrid in order to contest the November 2019 Spanish general election. The party is positioned on the left-wing of the ...

and Andalusian People's Initiative (IdPA) to contest the

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. The alliance was launched after over two months of negotiations between the parties to the left of the

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(PSOE–A), in an attempt to form a joint list that avoided

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s; however, both the new Adelante Andalucía party of

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, as well as the Andalusian Andalucía por Sí (AxSí)—which had been a founding member of the Andaluces Levantaos alliance between Más País, IdPA and itself—rejected joining in. An early agreement was concluded in late March 2022, and by April 2022 the new joint alliance of all these parties (with the exception of Adelante Andalucía and AxSí) was given the name ''Por Andalucía'' (

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for "For Andalusia"),. Controversy ensued as the role Podemos would play in the coalition, if any, became unclear. This conflict became more evident when the party presented its own prospective candidate, Juan Antonio Delgado, with no guarantees of participating in the coalition being given. A last-minute electoral coalition was reached between Podemos, IULV–CA,

Greens Equo Greens Equo (and formerly Q or eQuo) is a Spanish political party founded on 4 June 2011, when 35 Spanish green parties agreed to merge into Equo. It began as a foundation on 24 September 2010 with the goal of becoming "the seed and source of de ...

(AV),

and Andalusian People's Initiative (IdPA), but because Podemos and AV failed to file the required documentation ahead of the legal deadline, both parties found themselves unable to be awarded full party rights within the coalition. The coalition partners have nevertheless downplayed the impact of that administrative decision as a 'technicality' that will not affect the course of the campaign.

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Parliament of Andalusia

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