Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal

Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal
Party leader	Francisco Garcia Leal
Secretary General	Elisa Blanco, Marta Jimeno Antolín
founding	February 24, 2003
Place of foundation	Bilbao
Headquarters	Barcelona
European party	Animal Politics EU
Website	www.pacma.es

The Partido Animalista Contra el Maltrato Animal ( PACMA , Basque: Zezenketen Aurkako eta Animalien Aldeko Alderdia , ZAAAA, German for example: Party of animal rights activists against animal abuse ) is a Spanish political party . Above all, she campaigns for animal rights , especially against bullfights .

The party was founded under the name Partido Antitaurino Contra el Maltrato Animal (anti-bullfighting party against animal abuse) on February 24, 2003 in Bilbao . It has its strongholds in Catalonia and Galicia , but competes across Spain.

elections

The party has been running regularly in provincial and national elections since 2007. In the most recent parliamentary election in November 2011 , she received 102,144 votes and 0.42% of the vote, but could not win a seat. The best results at the provincial level were 0.53% in the election to the Provincial Assembly of Madrid in May 2011 and 0.54% in the 2012 election in Galicia. In the 2015 Spanish parliamentary elections , PACMA received 0.87% of the vote. In the 2016 election , the party increased to 1.18% of the vote, making it the party with the highest number of votes outside of parliament.

Election results

year	choice	Share of votes	Seats
2008	General election 2008	0.2%	0/350
2009	European elections 2009	0.3%	0/54
2011	Parliamentary election 2011	0.4%	0/350
2015	General election 2015	0.9%	0/350
2014	European elections 2014	1.1%	0/54
2016	General election 2016	1.2%	0/350
2019	General election April 2019	1.3%	0/350
2019	European elections 2019	1.3%	0/54
2019	General election November 2019	0.9%	0/350

Web links

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