Comités (''Committees'' in

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) is a student organization of

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. Formed from the union of the CAF-CAF (Comités Abertos de Facultade, ''Open College Committees'' in

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) and the CAE (Comités Abertos de Estudantes, ''Open Student Committees'' in

). Comités defends public, democratic and quality education in

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. It is an assembly-based organization. The Comités are considered the heirs of the

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, CAE and of the

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History

Due to the internal problems of the

and the CAE, those two organizations opted for its self-dissolution and boosted the creation of a new galician

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. That organization would be Comités, that had its constituent assembly in May 2008. In 2011 a group of more than 150 militants abandoned Comités, and accused the direction of ''undemocratic practices'' and of being subordinated to the

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strategy. The splitters would create the same year the

Galician Student League The Galician Student League (LEG, ''Liga Estudantil Galega'' in Galician language) is a students' union, student union that advocates for a public education, in galician language, democratic, of quality and not Patriarchy, patriarchal. It is an ...

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