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2015 Spanish General Election
A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 20 December 2015, to elect the members of the 11th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate of Spain, Senate. At exactly four years and one month since the previous election, this remains the longest timespan between two general elections since the Spanish transition to democracy, and the only time in Spain that a general election has been held on the latest possible date allowed under law. After a legislature plagued by the effects of an ongoing 2008–16 Spanish financial crisis, economic crisis, corruption scandals affecting the ruling party and social distrust with traditional parties, the election resulted in the most fragmented Spanish parliament up to that time. While the People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP) of incumbent Prime Minister of Spain, prime minister Mariano Rajoy emerged as the largest party overall, it obtained it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En Comú Podem
En Comú Podem (, ECP) was an electoral coalition in Catalonia, originally formed in October 2015 by Podemos, Barcelona en Comú, Initiative for Catalonia Greens, United and Alternative Left, and Equo, and led by the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, to contest the 2015 Spanish general election. For the 2016 general election, it was then registered as a party under the En Comú Podem−Guanyem el Canvi label ( Catalan for "In Common We Can−Let's Win Change"). Ahead of the 2019 Spanish general election, the alliance maintained its 2016 label, but was reforged as a continuation of the Catalunya en Comú–Podem alliance, the coalition of Catalunya en Comú and Podemos in the 2017 Catalan regional election. For the 2021 Catalan regional election, ran under the En Comú Podem−Podem en Comú label (). The alliance was dissolved ahead of the 2024 Catalan regional election. History Following the negative results of the Catalunya Sí que es Pot alliance in the 2015 Catala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Left Of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes
Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes (, ERC–CatSí) was a Catalan pro-independence electoral alliance. The alliance was formed by Republican Left of Catalonia, Catalonia Yes and independents, and in the 2015 and 2016 Spanish general elections it was led by Gabriel Rufián. For general elections, the alliance was succeeded by Republican Left of Catalonia–Sovereigntists. History The alliance was originally formed on 8 October 2011 to contest the 2011 Spanish general election by Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Catalonia Yes (CatSí) and Independence Rally (RI.cat), after talks with Catalan Solidarity for Independence (SI) to join the coalition failed to materialize. The alliance with RI.cat would be discontinued ahead of the 2012 Catalan regional election, as the party would support Artur Mas's Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) list, then sign a collaboration agreement with CDC in March 2014 to run together in subsequent elections. The ERC–CatSí al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Rufián
Gabriel Rufián Romero (born 8 February 1982) is a Spanish politician. In the Spanish general election of 2015 he led the Republican Left of Catalonia, a pro-independence electoral party. He is also a member of the secretariat of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana and a member of Súmate, two other pro-independence groups. In the 2016 general election, he was elected to the Spanish Cortes Generales for the constituency of Barcelona. On 20 September 2017, in support of the Catalan referendum on independence on 1 October, he told Mariano Rajoy to "take his dirty hands off Catalan institutions", after the Judiciary of Spain arrested several Catalan politicians as part of Operation Anubis. Later he and several other Catalan politicians walked out of the parliament in protest. In September 2018, Rufián was part of a one-hour question time directed towards the former premier José María Aznar. In the 2023 Spanish general election, Rufián again led the Republican Left of Catalonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizens (Spanish Political Party)
Citizens ( Spanish: ; ; shortened as Cs—C's until January 2017), officially Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (''Ciudadanos–Partido de la Ciudadanía'', CS), is a liberal political party in Spain. The party has been located in the centre to centre-right of the political spectrum. Citizens' political ideology was initially unclear beyond a strong opposition to Catalan independence and Catalan nationalism in general. The party initially presented itself as left-of-centre, holding social democratic and progressive liberal positions; however, it removed any mention of social democracy from its platform in February 2017, moving closer to the political centre. By 2018, it was judged by commentators to have drifted further away from the left, as its focus shifted to competing against the People's Party (PP) as the leading party of the Spanish right. Despite describing itself as postnationalist, it has been deemed by journalists and academics as professing a Spanish nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Rivera
Alberto Carlos Rivera Díaz (born 15 November 1979), known as Albert Rivera, is a Spanish former politician who was the leader of Citizens from its founding in 2006 until 2019. He was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia (2006–2015) and the Congress of Deputies (2015–2019). Early life and education Alberto Carlos Rivera Díaz was born in Barcelona. Albert Rivera Díaz is the only child of Agustín Rivera, member of a working-class family from La Barceloneta, and María Jesús Díaz, who had moved aged 13 from the small town of Cútar in Málaga province to follow in the footsteps of her elder brother, who had opened an electrical appliances shop. As a child, Albert spent several summers in Cútar. Over the years, most of his maternal family also moved to Catalonia, except for his grandfather Lucas Díaz, who had been the first to emigrate in the 1960s to France and then to Switzerland. Eventually his parents' opened their own business and moved to live in La Ametlla, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Coalició Compromís
Coalició Compromís (, ), also known as Compromís,Ávila López, E. (2016) ''Modern Spain'', p. 85 is a Valencianist electoral coalition in the Valencian Community, Spain. The parties involved include Més-Compromís, the left-wing Valencian People's Initiative, and the ecologist group Greens Equo of the Valencian Country and independent members. Together, they defend Valencianist, progressive and ecological politics. Compromís was founded in January 2010 to participate in the 2011 elections to the Valencian parliament, and the 2011 local elections. Since the 2015 election year, Compromís has significantly increased its representation in many institutions. As of 2022, the party has 724 councillors all over the Valencian Autonomous Community, 17 parliamentary representatives in the Valencian parliament (''Corts Valencianes''), one representative in the Congress of Deputies of Spain and one in the Spanish Senate. In the past, it also had one representative in the Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agreement For Catalonia Progress
The Catalan Agreement of Progress (), rebranded as Agreement for Catalonia Progress ( in 2011, was a union of center-left and left wing political parties in Catalonia. The union consisted of three parties: Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC–PSOE), Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) and United and Alternative Left (EUiA). Between 2000 and 2011, Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) was also part of the coalition. History The union was founded before the Spanish general election, 2000 by four left wing and Catalan political parties in Catalonia. The union is only represented in the Spanish Senate. Composition 2000 general election 2004 and 2008 general elections 2011 general election Electoral performance Senate See also *List of political parties in Catalonia *Spanish Senate The Senate () is the upper house of the , which along with the Congress of Deputies – the Lower house, lower chamber – comprises the Parliament of the Kingdom of Spain. The Senate meets in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plural Left (Spain, 2011)
United Left–The Greens: Plural Left () or just Plural Left () was an electoral alliance organized to contest the 2011 Spanish general election A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 20 November 2011, to elect the members of the 10th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate of Spain, .... It was led by United Left, with Cayo Lara as its leading candidate. Composition Electoral performance Cortes Generales References {{United Left (Spain) United Left (Spain) Defunct political party alliances in Spain Socialist parties in Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ICV–EUiA
Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left (, ICV–EUiA) was an electoral alliance formed by Initiative for Catalonia Greens and United and Alternative Left to contest elections in Catalonia. Since 2015 both parties have participated in several coalitions: En Comú Podem for the 2015 and 2016 general elections, Catalunya Sí que es Pot for the 2015 Catalan regional election, and Catalunya en Comú for the 2017 Catalan regional election. Currently, they are represented in the Spanish Congress of Deputies within En Comú Podem and in the Parliament of Catalonia within Catalunya en Comú–Podem Catalunya en Comú–Podem (, CatComú–Podem), alternatively spelled out as Catalunya–En Comú Podem (, CatECP), was a left-wing and self-governance electoral alliance, electoral and Parliamentary group, parliamentary alliance in Catalonia form .... Composition Electoral performance Parliament of Catalonia Cortes Generales Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
