Barcelona en Comú

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Barcelona en Comú
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Basic data
Art Civil society voter platform for the 2015 local elections in Barcelona
Alignment Grassroots democracy
Establishment date June 2014
Place of foundation Barcelona
Spokeswoman Ada Colau , Jaume Asans, Gerardo Pisarello, Gala Pin, Joan Subirats
Addresses
Website www.barcelonaencomu.cat
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Barcelona en Comú (Catalan for Barcelona Together ) is a civil society platform that brings together various social and political organizations to win the 2015 local elections in Barcelona. Your political guidelines and proposals will be developed in various participatory processes (on site and online) and include social justice and community rights, the promotion of participatory democracy, the creation of new mechanisms against corruption and the development of a new tourism model for Barcelona.

The name “Barcelona en Comú” replaced the previous name of the platform “Guanyem Barcelona” on February 10, 2015 (see registration as Guanyem Barcelona by Julià de Fabià ).

Context and beginnings

The organization emerged in the context of the Spanish economic crisis and the strong social movements that campaign for real democracy, the right to housing and the city, and against cuts and corruption (e.g. the protests in Spain 2011/2012 , also known as 15M, the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca ). The forms of decision-making, organization and mutual help discussed and implemented in these grassroots democratic movements began to take on a new dynamic around the 2014 European elections. Existing forms of government were criticized and reformulated, a reappropriation of the institutions was in the room. In the European elections, new grassroots parties won more than 10% of the vote. In the Catalan region, similar demands regarding independence from the Spanish state came to a head. Regaining political decision-making power was increasingly addressed beyond the EU, state government and Spanish territorial policy in relation to local politics.

The organization was created in spring 2014. Visible persons include Ada Colau (ex-spokeswoman for the PAH housing rights movement), Jaume Asans (lawyer), Gerardo Pisarello (constitutional law expert), Gala Pin (social activist) and Joan Subirats (political scientist). State-wide polls have shown that Ada Colau was very popular, who was then the platform's most likely and later actually elected mayoral candidate.

Validation process

Guanyem Barcelona (“Let's win ...”) went public in June 2014 with a manifesto, a call for participation and a public presentation at the Collasso-i-Gil school in the Raval district of Barcelona. A validation process was proposed there which made the continuation of the platform and its registration as a broad civil society electoral list dependent on at least 30,000 residents' signatures in Barcelona. This number of supporter signatures should be reached by September 2014, but it was already reached by mid-August. The validation process also included meetings in various districts of Barcelona, ​​where speakers of the initiative presented their proposal and discussed relevant district issues.

Political Code of Ethics

The company's own code of ethics applies to all persons and parties who appear on the name of the organization. It was developed using a participatory methodology, in the context of open debates on October 10 and 11, 2014 as well as an online platform in which the ethics document could be freely commented and edited.

Political alliances

From its inception, the organization has been in talks with various local political parties ( Partido X , Podemos Barcelona, ​​CUP Barcelona, ICV - EUiA , Procés Constituent ) to explore the possibility of a common electoral roll with shared ethical obligations. At the first party congress in Podemos on October 18 and 19, 2014, this party decided not to run individually in the 2015 municipal elections, but to support local citizens' initiatives such as Guanyem Barcelona. On November 22, 2014, the Trobada Popular Municipalista decided not to join the Guanyem platform due to disagreements over the salaries of politicians. The next day, Procés Constituent confirmed participation in the Guanyem candidacy. On February 6, 2015, the members of Podemos Barcelona voted 91% to participate in the candidacy.

Registration as Guanyem Barcelona by Julià de Fabià

After the organization had collected the necessary 30,000 signatures on August 28, 2014, representatives of the platform applied for the name “Guanyem Barcelona” to be registered as a political party at the Ministry of the Interior. They were informed that Julià de Fabià, a town councilor of Santa Maria de Palautordera , had already registered a party called "Guanyem Barcelona" two days earlier. In November, at a meeting he had suggested, Fabià offered the platform to give up registration if he was guaranteed a coordinating role for all Guanyem platforms in Spain. This proposal was rejected and condemned as extortion. In their correspondence with the Interior Ministry, members of the organization pointed out that they had already registered “Guanyem” as a political party with a notary on August 13, 2014 and that Fabià had given a wrong address when he registered with the Interior Ministry. The Ministry of the Interior rejected this objection and stuck to Fabià's registration, which now forced Guanyem to choose a new name. On February 10, 2015, Guanyem Barcelona introduced itself under the new name Barcelona en Comú (Barcelona Together).

Other guanyems

Since the start of the organization, further “Guanyem / Ganemos” movements have sprung up in various Spanish cities, including Madrid, Málaga, Terrassa, Hospitalet and Seville. None of these platforms are officially allied with Guanyem Barcelona.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ O'Sullivan, Feargus (Aug. 27, 2014). "Barcelona Organizes Against 'Binge Tourism' — and Eyes a Street Protester for Mayor". City Lab.
  2. ↑ Colau, Ada (September 3, 2014). "Comment is free Mass tourism can kill a city - just ask Barcelona's residents". The Guardian.
  3. ↑ Results of the EU elections in Spain http://resultados.elpais.com/elecciones/2014/europeas/
  4. ↑ Spiegel Online, September 30, 2014. "Striving for independence: Catalans want to challenge the cancellation of the referendum." http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/katalonien-proteste-gegen-verbot-des-referendums-zur-unabhaengigkeit-a-994713.html
  5. ↑ See for example the book "La Apuesta Municipalista" by Observatorio Metropolitano Madrid, May 2014. http://www.traficantes.net/libros/la-apuesta-municipalista
  6. ^ Daley, Suzanne (December 20, 2013). "Leading the Charge Against Spain's Mortgage Crisis".
  7. ↑ Presentation video Guanyem, June 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgXRgEh4j-0
  8. ^ Speed, Barbara (August 21, 2014). "A new grassroots movement is trying to take control of Barcelona's government". CityMetric.
  9. ↑ 30,000 people have signed up to validate the municipal project Guanyem Barcelona ". Guanyem Barcelona.
  10. ↑ "Xerrades". Guanyem Barcelona.
  11. ^ França, João (October 9, 2014). "On és cada partit davant la confluència a Guanyem Barcelona?".
  12. ↑ "Guanyem Barcelona se extiende a Madrid, Malaga, Las Palmas ... y de decenas ciudadaes y pueblos de todo el Estado español". www.kaosenlared.net/. 7th August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Por un municipalismo ciudadano, de ruptura y constituyente para las elecciones de mayo de 2015". Guanyem Barcelona.