Partido Aragonés
The Partido Aragonés , or PAR for short , is a regional party in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Aragon .
History and elections
The PAR emerged in 1978 from the Candidatura Aragonesa Independiente de Centro (CAIC). This had been founded a few months earlier to participate in the first free elections to the Cortes Generales as a split from the UCD throughout Spain .
The PAR was founded with the name Partido Aragonés Regionalista and was renamed Partido Aragonés in 1990 .
It has been represented in the regional parliament, the Cortes de Aragón , without interruption since the first legislature (1983 election) .
| Legislature | be right | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-1987 | 124.018 | 20.23 | 13 |
| 1987-1991 | 179,922 | 27.80 | 19th |
| 1991-1995 | 151.420 | 24.51 | 17th |
| 1995-1999 | 143,573 | 20.31 | 14th |
| 1999-2003 | 86,519 | 13.16 | 10 |
| 2003-2007 | 79,670 | 11.10 | 8th |
| 2007-2011 | 80,862 | 12.12 | 9 |
| 2011-2015 | 62,148 | 9.15 | 7th |
| 2015- | 45,846 | 6.86 | 6th |
In the regional government of Aragon, the PAR was represented from 1987-1993 and 1995-1999 in a coalition with the conservative PP and 1999-2011 in a coalition with the social democratic PSOE , from 1987-1993 being the prime minister of the region.
At the Spanish level, the PAR was represented in the House of Representatives of the Cortes Generales from 1979 to 1996 , although it only ran for election in the three Aragonese constituencies (provinces). In 1982 she was part of an electoral alliance with the conservative AP and the Christian Democratic PDP and in 1996 an electoral alliance with the conservative PP.
| Legislature | be right | % (in Aragon) |
Seats | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-1979 | 37.183 | 5.70 | 1 | Candidatura Aragonesa Independiente de Centro |
| 1979-1982 | 38,042 | 6.07 | 1 | |
| 1982-1986 | common lists with AP and PDP | 2 | the lists received 30.8% of the vote and five seats in Aragon, two of them for candidates for the PAR | |
| 1986-1989 | 73.004 | 11.02 | 1 | |
| 1989-1993 | 71,733 | 10.88 | 1 | |
| 1993-1996 | 144,544 | 19.00 | 1 | |
| 1996-2000 | common lists with PP | 1 | the lists received 47.9% of the vote and eight seats in Aragon, one of them for candidates for the PAR | |
| 2000-2004 | 38,883 | 5.38 | 0 | |
| 2004-2008 | 36,540 | 4.68 | 0 | |
| 2008-2011 | 40,054 | 5.22 | 0 | |
| 2011 - | common lists with PP | 0 | the lists received 47.7% of the vote and eight seats in Aragon, none of them for candidates for the PAR; Nine senators were elected to the Senate via the joint lists, three of them from the ranks of the PAR | |
Program
The PAR sees itself as a defender of Aragonese interests and demands the highest possible degree of autonomy for the region under the Spanish constitution. It rejects the branches ( trasvases ) of water from the Ebro to other regions provided for in the National Water Plan . It positions itself as a party of the political center.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Los presidentes del Partido Popular y del Partido Aragonés rubrican el acuerdo por el que las dos formaciones concurrirán en coalición a las próximas elecciones generales. (No longer available online.) Website of the Partido Aragonés, October 3, 2011, archived from the original on February 2, 2016 ; Retrieved October 3, 2011 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
