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established in December 2016 as an umbrella for

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(ICV),

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(EUiA), Podemos and

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, which until then had been collaborating through

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s under the Catalunya Sí que es Pot and

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labels in the September 2015 regional and December 2015 and June 2016 general elections. Its spokesman until 2018 was En Comú Podem's spokesperson in the

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, Xavier Domènech, with the new party being sponsored by

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Ada Colau. It contested the

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under the

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label, in coalition with Podemos, then joined the

alliance ahead of the

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History

The first stepts for constituting the political space previously represented by the Catalunya Sí que es Pot and

alliances into a permanent political party can be traced to January 2016, when the party's trademark was provisionally registered in the interior ministry and

Ada Colau announced her intention of establishing her own, autonomous party separate from Podemos. On 19 December 2016, the "Un País en Comú" ( en, "A Country in Common") platform was launched with the aim of constituting the political space previously represented by the Catalunya Sí que es Pot and

alliances into a permanent political party. The platform's establishment had been supported by

(ICV),

(EUiA),

and

, with it holding its first public event on 29 January 2017 in

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, and the party's founding congress on 8 April. Organizational disagreements in March over the voting system selected to elect the leadership team and the ideological principles that should govern the new platform had seen regional Podemos/Podem leader, Albano Dante Fachin, opting out of the founding congress at the last moment, promising future collaboration with the other constituent parties but rejecting to integrate Podem into the new party. Despite this, several Podem members disaffected with Fachin's leadership, such as Jéssica Albiach o Marc Bertomeu, did join the new party on their own accord. The definitive name of the party was to be chosen in a voting among party members following the founding assembly, with several proposals being registered in advance to prevent a similar case as what happened to the "Guanyem" trademark in 2014: Catalunya en Comú (

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for "Catalonia in Common"), En Comú Podem ("In Common We Can"), En Comú ("In Common") or Comuns ("Commons"). In a final voting held on 22 May 2017, name "Catalunya en Comú" was picked by party members over "En Comú Podem" in a 54–46% vote.

Composition

Electoral performance

Parliament of Catalonia

Cortes Generales

Symbols

File:Un País en Comú (2016).png, Logo from December 2016 to June 2017. File:Catalunya en Comú.svg, Logo from June 2017 to November 2021. File:Catalunya En Comú 2021 logo.svg, Logo from November 2021 to present.

Notes

References

External links

* * {{Catalan political parties 2016 establishments in Catalonia Political parties established in 2016 Political parties in Catalonia