Compromis
Compromís (also Coalició Compromís ) is an alliance of left regional parties in the Spanish region of Valencia .
Member parties
The Compromís alliance includes the Bloc Nacionalista Valencià (BLOC), Iniciativa del Poble Valencià (IdPV) and Verds Equo del País Valencià (VerdsEquo) .
BLOC was founded in 1998 as an amalgamation of various Valencian left-wing parties and sees itself as an "organization of progressive Valencian nationalism".
The Iniciativa del Poble Valencià party defines itself as eco-socialist . It was created in 2008 as a spin-off from the Valencian regional association of Izquierda Unida (IU) .
In VerdsEquo is a green party, from the merger of the Valencian Green Party in 2014 Els Verds-Esquerra Ecologista del País Valencià (EV-EE) and the Valencian Regional Association of total Spanish party Equo emerged . VerdsEquo is an independent party, which at the same time also functions as Equo's Valencian sister party (similar to the relationship between the CDU and CSU in Germany) .
At the European level, the BLOC belongs to the European Free Alliance and VerdsEquo are part of the European Green Party through its parent party Equo .
precursor
A first electoral alliance called Compromís pel País Valencià took place in 2007 in the election of the Valencian regional parliament. In addition to BLOC and Els Verds-Esquerra Ecologista del País Valencià (EV-EE, predecessor of VerdsEquo ), other parties that are no longer part of Compromís were part of this electoral alliance: the IU, Els Verds del País Valencià (another green party ) and Izquierda Republicana (IR). This electoral alliance received 8% of the vote and seven of the 99 seats in the regional parliament. These seven members formed a parliamentary group in the regional parliament. As early as 2008, however, there were tensions within the Valencian regional association of the IU, which ultimately led to the spin-off of the Iniciativa del Poble Valencià . The faction also split. The three MPs remaining in the IU were excluded or resigned, so that the two MPs from Iniciativa and from BLOC remained in the group .
For the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2008 , the three parties that are now part of Compromís then ran for the first time together in the Valencia region under the name Bloc-Iniciativa-Verds . However, this candidacy received only 1% of the vote in the region, so that it could not have a member of the Spanish Parliament.
Elections 2011
For the election to the Valencian regional parliament in 2011 , these three parties ran together again, this time under the name Coalició Compromís . With 7% and six MPs in the regional parliament, she achieved her first noteworthy result.
For the election to the Spanish parliament on November 20, 2011 , Equo also joined this electoral alliance in the Valencia region , which is now called Compromís-Q . It achieved a 5% result in the region and a seat in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies .
2015 elections and participation in regional government
In the 2015 election to the Valencian regional parliament , Compromís was able to more than double the result with 18.5% compared to the last election and win 19 seats in the regional parliament. After the election, Compromís formed the regional government in a coalition with the social democratic PSOE and, with Mònica Oltra (Iniciativa), is the region's deputy prime minister. After the local elections, which took place at the same time, Compromís also provides the mayor of the city of Valencia with Joan Ribó .
For the Spanish parliamentary election on December 20, 2015 , the three member parties of Compromís in the Valencia region formed a joint candidacy with the all-Spanish left-wing party Podemos . These received 25% of the vote in the region, which means that they have nine MPs in the Spanish House of Representatives (five from Podemos , two from Iniciativa , two from BLOC). After the Presidium of the House of Representatives rejected the formation of a separate group of these nine MPs, the five Podemos members joined the Podemos group, while the four Compromís MPs became part of the Grupo Mixto ("mixed group") in the after Parliament's Rules of Procedure automatically combine all MEPs who do not belong to any other political group.
Election 2016
For the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2016 , Podemos , IU and the Compromís parties ran a joint candidacy in the Valencia region . This again received 25% of the votes in the region and nine MPs (four from Podemos , one from IU, two from Iniciativa and two from BLOC). The five deputies from Podemos and IU joined the Unidos Podemos group, while the four Compromís deputies became part of Grupo Mixto again.
Elections 2019
In the Spanish parliamentary elections on April 28, 2019 and the election to the Valencian regional parliament that took place on the same day, the three Compromís parties ran together again. The joint candidacy with Podemos and IU for the elections to the Spanish parliament was not reissued.
In the election for the Spanish MP, Compromís was the sixth strongest force in the Valencia region with 6.5% and a mandate behind PSOE , PP , Ciudadanos , Unidas Podemos and VOX . In the election to the regional parliament, Compromís took fourth place with 16.4% and 17 seats, leaving VOX and Unidas Podemos behind.