Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català
| Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català Catalan European Democratic Party |
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| Party leader | David Bonvehí |
| Secretary General | David Bonvehí |
| vice-chairman | Míriam Nogueras |
| Emergence | Successor organization to the Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC), which was dissolved at the same time |
| founding | July 10, 2016 |
| Headquarters | C / Provença, 339 08037 Barcelona |
| Youth organization | Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya (JNC) |
| Alignment |
Separatism , Catalanism , Republicanism , Liberalism , Economic Liberalism |
| Colours) | blue |
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Congreso de los Diputados (Catalan Seats) |
7/47 |
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Senado (Catalan seats) |
4/24 |
| Parliament de Catalunya |
15/135 |
| Number of members | 12,700 (2017) |
| International connections | Liberal International |
| MEPs |
1/59 |
| EP Group | ALDE group |
| Website | www.partitdemocrata.cat |
The Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català ( PDeCAT ; German: Catalan European Democratic Party ) is a liberal , separatist party in Catalonia that advocates independence for this region from Spain . It was founded on July 9 and 10, 2016 in Barcelona and is the successor organization of the Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) , which was dissolved at the same time under allegations of corruption .
prehistory
The predecessor party CDC was founded in 1974 during Spain's transition to democracy . In 1979 she formed the party alliance Convergència i Unió (CiU) together with the Christian Democratic Unió Democràtica de Catalunya (UDC ) . The CDC was a determining force in Catalonia for decades and provided the prime minister of the region with Jordi Pujol (1980–2003), Artur Mas (2010–2016) and Carles Puigdemont (2016–2017).
For decades, the CiU and CDC pursued a pragmatic policy in relation to the Spanish government. They often played the role of a majority funder in the Spanish parliament, for which Catalonia received an expansion of competencies and better financial resources from the central government. This changed from 2012 when the CDC, under the leadership of the Catalan Prime Minister Artur Mas, took a line of secession from Spain. The CiU party alliance broke up in 2015 because of the question of the region's independence.
In addition, the CDC has been increasingly affected by corruption and privilege affairs in the last few years of its existence. The management of the CDC therefore decided to found a new company in 2015. On May 21, 2016, such a dissolution of the CDC was approved in a ballot. This was followed by the last CDC party convention on July 8, 2016, which was followed by the founding congress of the new party. After heated discussions about the name of the new party to be founded, in which the proposals of the CDC leadership ( MésCatalunya and Catalans Convergents ) had previously been rejected by the grassroots, the party was finally given the name Partit Demòcrata Català , which precedes the name Partit Nacional Català was just given preference. However, the name turned out to be a problematic stumbling block, since a year earlier a party called Demòcrates de Catalunya had been founded by dissatisfied members of the CDC and the Spanish Ministry of the Interior was therefore unable to register the name of the new party. In September 2016, the Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català, which was expanded by the party leadership for this purpose, was registered as a party name by the Ministry of the Interior and adopted by party members from October 21 to 22. The central bodies of the new party were elected in a primary election on July 23, 2016.
With the appointment of Puigdemont president of the regional government, the party has increasingly become the instrument and went de facto in the electoral alliance Junts per Catalunya on (the one with predominantly from the separatist activist movement ANC asked non-party politicians was formed), with the overarching objective of independence Catalonia, especially after Puigdemont's flight into exile in Belgium. In the parliamentary elections in Catalonia 2017 , Junts per Catalonia, in which PDeCat provided the apparatus and the funding, won 34 of 135 seats, making it the strongest group of Catalan independence advocates (and second largest group after Ciudadanos ) in the Catalan regional parliament.
On October 27, 2018, the PDeCAT was expelled from the ALDE party at an extraordinary meeting due to corruption affairs of the predecessor party CDC and the increasingly separatist positions (in particular at the instigation of the unionist Ciudadanos, who are also represented in ALDE).
Web links
- Official Website (Catalan)