Más País (MP), or More Country, was a

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. It was an electoral platform formed by Íñigo Errejón around Más Madrid in order to contest the November 2019 general election. The party was positioned on the

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of the political spectrum, and it promoted

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, women's and sexual minority rights and

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History

The platform was announced on 22 September 2019 and was formally launched on 25 September, out of a desire of preventing dissatisfaction from centre-left voters over the failure in the government formation process between the

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(PSOE) and Unidas Podemos to translate into a higher abstention rate. During the party's presentation, Errejón announced that it would avoid running in the smaller constituencies, where they would be unlikely to win any seat but could contribute to other left-of-centre parties—mainly PSOE and UP—losing out their own seats due to vote splitting. On 26 September, it was revealed the platform had reached a tentative agreement with Equo in order to run jointly in a number of constituencies, a choice subsequently ratified by a majority of party members the next day, in practice meaning the end of the Equo collaboration with Unidas Podemos despite some members, such as

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, announcing their will to remain within Pablo Iglesias's coalition while leaving the party. On 27 September, the platform was joined by Podemos Region of Murcia leaders Óscar Urralburu and María Giménez, the party's only elected members in the Regional Assembly of Murcia, who subsequently left Podemos and their regional seats amid criticism of its national leader Pablo Iglesias. On 30 September, just before the deadline for the registration of electoral coalitions, Más País legally took the form of a renaming of Más Madrid, while also modifying the latter's territorial scope from the Madrid region to a country-wide level. The political party registered two-way coalitions before the electoral authorities with Compromís (" Més Compromís"; in the constituencies of

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, Castellón and

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) and Equo (in

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, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas,

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and

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) as well as a three-way coalition with Chunta Aragonesista and Equo in

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. On 4 October, it was announced that Carolina Bescansa, one of the Podemos co-founders, would be joining the party as their lead candidate for the constituency of A Coruña, a move which prompted further defections from Podemos' branch in Galicia into Más País. Three days later, right before the deadline for the registration of single-party lists, the party collected the minimum number of signatures (amounting to 0.1% of the electoral census) to run as a stand-alone party in the constituencies of

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and the

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. They oppose political gridlock. In 2021, the party introduced a motion to legalise the recreational use of cannabis in Spain. In 2023, former Podemos deputy Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez announced that his new party, Proyecto Drago, would be joining the alliance ahead of the 2023 regional elections. The party started a process to dissolve all of its branches (except Más Madrid, which would remain as an independent party) and integrate in Sumar (the political party created by Yolanda Díaz to gather independent figures in her electoral platform) after the

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Coalitions

Ahead of the November 2019 Spanish general election, the system of electoral alliances and coalitions established by Más País comprised the following parties:

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

Regional parliaments

Symbols

File:Más País logo.svg, Main logo File:Más País.svg, Alternative logo File:Más País-Equo logo.svg, Logo for Más País–Equo lists File:Más País-CHA-Equo logo.svg, Logo for Más País–CHA–Equo lists

Notes

References

External links

* {{Spanish political parties 2019 establishments in Spain Political parties established in 2019 Political parties in Spain