List of political parties in Spain
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This article lists political parties in Spain.
Spain has a multi-party system at both the national and regional level. Nationally there are two dominant political parties, (the left-leaning PSOE and conservative PP) which makes it extremely difficult for any other formation or coalition to achieve an electoral majority in the bicameral Cortes Generales (consisting of both the national Congress of Deputies and regional representation in the Senate).
Regional parties can be strong in autonomous communities like Catalonia and the Basque Country and are often essential for national government coalitions.
National political formations of Spain
- People's Party (Partido Popular, PP) — mainstream centre-right, is a conservative, Catholic and economically liberal party.
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) — mainstream centre-left social democratic party linked to General Union of Workers (Unión General de Trabajadores, UGT) trade union.
- Podemos — left-wing party founded in January 2014.
- Citizens (Ciudadanos) — a centre-left to centre-right business-friendly party. It supports high degree of political decentralization, but it rejects autonomous communities' right to self-determination.
- United Left (Izquierda Unida, IU) — left-wing group associated with Workers' Commissions (Comisiones Obreras, CCOO) trade union, is a coalition of minor left-wing, republican and green parties led by the Communist Party of Spain, supporting the removal of the monarchy of Spain and the withdrawal of Spain from NATO.
- Union, Progress and Democracy (Unión, Progreso y Democracia, UPyD) — a recently established progressive party which ideologically combines social liberalism with centralism from the centre of political spectrum. It strongly supports the unity of Spain, thereby being an enemy of Spain's peripheral nationalisms.
Most voted political parties in the 2015 Spanish general election
Other political parties represented in regional parliaments
Political parties running for the Spanish general election, 2011[1]
- Amaiur
- Partido Andalucista (PA)
- Andecha Astur
- Anticapitalist Left
- Asturias Forum (FAC)
- Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV)
- Convergence and Union (CIU)
- Communist Party of the People of Spain (PCPE)
- Communist Unification of Spain
- EQUO
- Escaños en Blanco (Eb)
- España 2000
- Falange Española de las Jons (FE de las jons)
- For a Fairer World (PUM+J)
- Foro Centro y Democracia (CYD)
- Humanist Party (PH)
- Internet Party (PDI)
- Partido de Castilla y León (PCAL)
- Partido Regionalista por Andalucía Oriental (PRAO)
- Animalist Party Against Mistreatment to Animals (PACMA)
- People's Party (Spain) aka Popular Party (PP)
- Pirates of Catalonia (Pirata.cat)
- Platform for Catalonia (PxC)
- Podemos (not the same as Podemos)
- Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC)
- Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra)
- Republican Left of the Valencian Country (ERPV)
- Republicanos (RPS)
- Solidaridad y Autogestión Internacionalista (SAIn)
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
- Unidá
- Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD)
- United Left (Spain)
Political parties without any representation
- Agrupación de Electores Independientes Zamoranos
- Alianza para el Desarrollo y la Naturaleza
- Alianza por la Unidad Nacional
- Andecha Astur
- Batzarre
- Bloque por Asturies
- Coalición Asturiana
- Ciudadanos Agobiados y Cabreados
- Ciudadanos En Blanco
- Coalición Europea
- Coalición Liberal - European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party
- Coalición Galega
- Comunión Tradicionalista
- Communist Unification of Spain
- Conceju Nacionaliegu Cántabru
- Democracia Nacional
- España 2000
- Estat Català
- Extremadura Unida
- Falange Auténtica
- Falange Española de las JONS
- Frente Popular Galega
- Frente Nacional (National Front)
- Herritarren Zerrenda (legal in France, but not in Spain due to links with Batasuna / Herri Batasuna)
- Republican Left (Izquierda Republicana)
- Iniciativa Socialista de Izquierdas
- Izquierda Asturiana
- Izquierda Castellana
- La Falange
- Los Parados
- Los Verdes
- Los Verdes de la Comunidad de Madrid
- Los Verdes Ecopacifistas
- Lucha Internacionalista
- Movimiento Social Republicano
- Nós-Unidade Popular (Us-People Unity)
- Nueva Izquierda Verde
- Nuevo Partido por la Democracia[2][3]
- Otra Democracia Es Posible
- Partido Andalucista
- Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal (PACMA)
- Partido Carlista, see Carlism
- Partido Cannabis
- Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España (PCPE)
- Partido da Terra
- Partido de Acción Socialista (PASOC)
- Partido de los Autónomos Jubilados y Viudas
- Partido del Bierzo
- Partido de Internet
- Partido de la Libertad Individual
- Partido del Karma Democrático
- Partido Demócrata Español
- Partido Familia y Vida
- Partido Humanista
- Partido Galeguista
- Partido Mutuo Apoyo Romántico
- Partido Obrero Socialista Internacionalista
- Partido Pirata
- Partido Regionalista del País Leonés (Regionalist Party of the Leonese Country) Salamanca, Zamora, León PREPAL
- Partíu Asturianista
- Por un Mundo más Justo
- Por una Europa de los Trabajadores y los Pueblos - No a la Constitucion Europea - coalition of PCPE and LI-LIT.CI
- Prepal
- Socialismo Revolucionario (Revolutionary Socialism)
- Spanish Alternative
- Tierra Comunera - Partido nacionalista Castellano, Castilian nationalist party
- Unidad Cántabra
- Unidad Regionalista Asturiana
- Unidad Regionalista de Castilla y León
- Unión Centrista Liberal
- Unión del Pueblo Salmantino, Salamanca
- Vox
- Zornotza Eginez (local)
- Zutik
Illegal parties
- ANV (EAE - ANV)
- Communist Party of the Basque Homelands (Partido Comunista de las Tierras Vascas) PCTV - EHAK
- Euskal Herritarrok has been made illegal by the Spanish Supreme Court of Justice (Tribunal Supremo), which regards it as part of ETA, which is banned as a terrorist group
- Herri Batasuna/Batasuna (the political branch of ETA)
(* Note: Batasuna is legal in France; it is however an association and not a political party) Batasuna is in the list of terrorist organisations of US and EU.
Defunct major parties
- Unión de Centro Democrático, refounded as Centro Democrático y Social (also defunct) (merged into Partido Popular)
- Alianza Popular, refounded as Partido Popular
- Partido Demócrata Popular, absorbed into the Partido Popular
- Partido Liberal, absorbed into the Partido Popular
- Partit Socialista de Mallorca, absorbed into PSM - Nationalist Agreement
- Euskadiko Ezkerra, absorbed into Partido Socialista de Euskadi
- Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, the leading right-wing party of the Second Spanish Republic
- Partido Reformista Democrático
- Partido Socialista Popular
- Radical Republican Party
- Unió Valenciana
See also
- Politics of Spain
- List of political parties by country
- List of political parties in Catalonia
- Liberalism and radicalism in Spain
References
- ↑ http://www.juntaelectoralcentral.es/jelect/2011/GENERALES_2011_Candidaturas.pdf
- ↑ "La entrevista: 'Somos un ejemplo para los jóvenes'". Pinares Noticias (in Spanish). June 17, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
- ↑ Antón, B. (June 11, 2014). "La vocación por bandera". Diario de Burgos (in Spanish). Retrieved June 27, 2014.
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