Chunta Aragonesista

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Chunta Aragonesista ( CHA ) is a left regional party of Spain in the Autonomous Region of Aragon . In the parliamentary elections in 2008 , she lost her seat in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies ( Congreso de los Diputados ).

ideology

The party stands for a socialist , emancipatory and ecological policy . She is particularly committed to protecting the Ebro River and rejects the national water plan. The self-determination of the people of Aragon continues to be an important concern.

politics

Chunta Aragonesista was founded on June 29, 1986 as Unión Aragonesista-Chunta Aragonesista . She sees herself as an heir in the tradition of the Aragonese parties Estado Aragonesista and Unión Aragonesista, which were successful at the beginning of the 20th century . It has seen an enormous increase in voters since it was founded, comparable to other regional parties in Spain. After the regional, provincial and local elections in 2007, it currently has 4 seats in the regional parliament of Aragón, 3 seats in the provincial parliament of the province of Saragossa and 2 seats each in the provincial parliaments of Huesca and Teruel. In the regional capital Saragossa , where it formed the city government together with the PSOE until 2007 , it has 1 city council, while the PSOE received an absolute majority in 2007. In total, the Chunta has 110 city and municipal councils in the province of Zaragoza, 85 in the province of Huesca and 33 in the province of Teruel.

José Antonio Labordeta

The teacher , writer and songwriter José Antonio Labordeta had a mandate in the Spanish House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is the most famous politician of the CHA. In 2000 he voted against the conservative candidate José María Aznar in the election for prime minister , in 2004 he voted for the socialist José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero .

At the European level, the CHA participates in the European Free Alliance (EFA), the gathering movement of European regional parties . As part of this alliance, she is running for European elections together with other Spanish parties ( Eusko Alkartasuna , Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya , Partido Andalucista and Bloque Nacionalista Galego ). In the European elections in 2004 this list connection reached a seat in the European Parliament , which was initially occupied by Bernat Joan i Marí (ERC), from June 2007 by Mikel Irujo (EA). For its part, the CHA had to accept losses of votes for the first time in the party's traditional strongholds, the Aragonese cities (especially Zaragoza), in the 2004 European elections. However, it was surprisingly able to gain voters in rural areas. In 2005 she started a campaign against the European Constitution , but it was ratified by a referendum in Spain.

In the regional elections in 2007, the CHA again lost votes and only achieved four instead of the previous nine seats in the regional parliament. It achieved the best results in the districts (comarcas) Valdejalón (16.0%), Sobrarbe (15.5%), Campo de Cariñena (14.9%) and Jacetania (11.3%).

This trend continued in the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2008, in which the party received less than half of the votes of 2004 and thus lost its parliamentary seat and fell behind the second Aragonese regional party Partido Aragonés PAR (39,905 votes, also 0 seats). In this election, Labordeta was no longer the top candidate, but number two on the list in the province of Zaragoza. The top candidate was Bizén Fuster . After the part of the vote and the four seats could be retained in the regional elections in 2011, the CHA lost further ground in 2015 and only got 4.6% of the votes and two seats.

Election results

  • Spanish parliamentary elections 1996: 0.20% (absolute: 49,739) - 0 seats (6.4% in Aragón)
  • Spanish parliamentary elections 2000: 0.33% (absolute: 75,356) - 1 seat (10.4% in Aragón)
  • Spanish parliamentary elections 2004 : 0.37% (absolute: 93,865) - 1 seat (11.2% in Aragón)
  • Spanish parliamentary elections 2008 : 0.15% (absolute: 37,995) - 0 seats (5.00% in Aragón)
  • Regional elections Aragón 2003: 14.01% (absolute: 97,777) - 9 seats (18.01% in Zaragoza district)
  • Regional elections Aragón 2007: 8.17% (absolute: 54,483) - 4 seats (9.3% in Zaragoza district)
  • Regional elections Aragón 2011: 8.2% - 4 seats (9.2% in Zaragoza district)
  • Regional elections Aragón 2015: 4.58% - 2 seats

See also

Web links

Official site (Aragonese, Catalan, Spanish)