Europe of the Peoples–The Greens (, EdP–V) was a

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formed for the 2009 European Parliament election in Spain. The alliance consisted of eleven parties, nine leftwing nationalist and two

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. All member parties were allied with either the

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or the European Greens. The program of the alliance emphasized

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, democratic reform, peace and a commitment to a social Europe. The electoral support was enough to give the alliance one seat in the European Parliament: this was taken by

Oriol Junqueras Oriol Junqueras i Vies (; born 11 April 1969) is a Spain, Spanish politician and historian from Catalonia. A former mayor of the municipality of Sant Vicenç dels Horts in Catalonia, Junqueras served as Vice President of Catalonia from January 2 ...

from the Catalan ERC. The MEP was expected to sit in the

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group in the

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. Junqueras stood down in 2012 and was replaced by Ana Miranda Paz of the Galician Nationalist Bloc.

Composition

Electoral performance

European Parliament

References

External links

www.europadelospueblos.net/
in Catalan, Basque, Aragonese, Asturian and Castillian. {{DEFAULTSORT:Europe of the Peoples-Greens Defunct political party alliances in Spain Defunct socialist parties in Spain Galician Nationalist Bloc