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The Galician People's Front () is a Galician political organization with a socialist and independentist ideology.


History

After the
Galician People's Union The Galician People's Union () is a Galicia (Iberian Peninsula), Galician nationalist and communist political party, and is one of the registered political parties of Spain. The party publishes the magazine ''Terra e Tempo'', and the secretary gene ...
(UPG) accepted the participation of the
Bloque Nacionalista Galego The Galician Nationalist Bloc ( , BNG) is a political party from Galicia, formed with the merger of a series of left-wing Galician nationalist parties. It is self-defined as a "patriotic front". Founded in 1982 under the guidance of historical ...
(BNG) in the
Galician Parliament The Parliament of Galicia () is the unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It is formed by 75 deputies (). Deputies are elected every four years in ordinary period, or extraordinarily upon dissolution and call o ...
in 1986, 13 members of its Central Committee led by Mariano Abalo and Xan Carballo left the party and created the Communist Collective. On 25 July 1986, the group was transformed into the
Communist Party of National Liberation Communist Party of National Liberation (in Galician language, Galician: ''Partido Comunista de Liberación Nacional'') was a separatist political party in Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. PCLN was founded on 25 July 1986 by the 22 March Communist C ...
(PCLN). Later, the 3rd National Assembly of the BNG expelled the group because they gave support to
Herri Batasuna Herri Batasuna (; ; HB) was a Far-left politics, far-left Basque nationalist coalition in Spain. It was founded in 1978 and defined itself as abertzale left, abertzale, left-wing, socialism, socialist, and supported the independence of the Basque ...
. In 1987, PCLN and
Galiza Ceibe-OLN Galiza Ceibe-OLN (in English: ''Liberated Galiza-National Liberation Organization'') was an independentist and socialist political party in Galicia, Spain. Galiza Ceibe was founded on 1980 by the Galician Party of the Proletariat (''Partido Gale ...
, along with other small organizations, created the FPG. In June 1989, they suffered a split as the sectors that supported the armed struggle of the EGPGC broke away and formed Assembleia do Povo Unido. In the Elections for the Galician Parliament 2001, the group obtained 3,176 votes (0.3%), in the Elections for the Spanish Parliament 2004, it obtained 2,257 votes (0.12%), and in the Elections for the Galician Parliament 2005, it obtained 2,982 votes (0.2%). Since 2012, the FPG is part of Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood.Salgado, D. (2012)
''Anova constituye su dirección permanente con Beiras, Martiño Noriega y militantes de la FPG''
El País (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ...
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Elections


Gallery

File:Fpg-25071991.jpg, Demonstration in the
Día Nacional de Galicia Dia Nacional de Galicia ("National Day of Galicia") is when the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia in Spain celebrates its national holiday. It falls on 25 July. It is also called ''Día da Patria Galega'' ("Day of the Galician Fa ...
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References


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External links


Official Web of the FPG
(in Galician)
Official Web of Xeira!, the FPG youth organization
(in Galician) {{Authority control 1986 establishments in Spain Communist parties in Spain Far-left politics in Spain Galician nationalist parties Left-wing nationalist parties in Spain Political parties established in 1986 Political parties in Galicia (Spain) Secessionist organizations in Europe Socialist parties in Galicia (Spain)