To follow my post about expats getting involved in Spanish elections, here's a list of Spain's political parties. The list is borrowed, with permission, from Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources page on the Keele University website. The two main Spanish parties are the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (in government now) and the Popular Party. In Catalonia, other major parties are Convergence and Union (a collection of various socially-conservative political groups, each separately represented below), Republican Left of Catalonia, and Greens/United Left/European Alternative.
Curiously, Progreso Y Orden isn't on the list. Which suggests that there are other mentalist-fringe groups around. Are there any other omissions? Which is your favourite? Click the link below to see the list.
- Agrupación Social Independiente
- Andalucía Libre
- Bloque Nacionalista Galego, Galician nationalists
- Bloc Nacionalista Valencià
- Cell for the Reconstruction of the Canarian Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist
- CDC, Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya
- Chunta Aragonesista
- Communist Party of Cataluña
- Communist Party of the People of Andalusia
- Communist Party of the People of Asturia
- Comunión Tradicionalista Carlista
- Corriente Roja, Marxist
- Cultura Natural (green, anarchist)
- Democracia Nacional
- El Militante
- Els Verds - Alternativa Verda
- Endavant - Organització Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional
- En Lucha
- Escaños Vacíos
- espai alternatiu, alternative left, anti-capitalist
- Esquerda de Galicia
- Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya
- Esquerra Unida País Valencià
- Esquerra Unida i Alternativa
- Esquerra Unida Illes Balears
- EAJ-PNV. Basque Nationalist Party
- Estat Català
- Eusko Alkartasuna
- La Falange
- Falange-Autentica
- Falange Española de las JONS
- Free Galicia
- Frente Democrático Español
- Front Nacional Valencià
- Gazte Komunistak, young communists
- Independientes de Plentzia - Grupo Municipal
- Iniciativa Comunista, Madrid Marxist-Leninist
- Iniciativa per Catalunya - Verds, Catalan Green Party
- Izquierda Republicana. Republican Left
- Izquierda Unida
- Juventudes Falangistas de España
- Los Verdes, the main Green Party
- Lucha Internacionalista
- Marxismo.org
- Mesa de Refundación Comunista, Barcelona. Dissolved
- Movimiento Anti-Imperialista
- Movimiento de Izquierda Alternativa
- Movimiento Social Republicano
- National Republican Party, socialist
- Nación Andaluza
- Organització Comunista de Catalunya, unavailable
- Organització Comunista del País Valencià
- Partido Andalucista
- PCE: Partido Comunista de España
- PPCV: Partido Popular de La Comunidad Valenciana
- Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España
- Partido Comunista de España (reconstituido)
- Partido Comunista de España (marxista-leninista)
- Partit dels Comunistes de Catalunya
- Partido Familia y Vida
- PSPV-PSOE: Partit Socialista Del País Valencià
- Partido Obrero Revolucionario
- Partido Obrero Socialista Internacionalista, Spanish section of the IVth International
- Partido Popular
- Parties represented in the Cortez
- Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional dels Països Catalans
- Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya
- Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya
- Political Parties in Spain
- Progreso y Orden
- PSM-Entesa Nacionalista
- Socialismo Libertario, socialist anarchist
- Socialist Workers Party. English page: PSOE
- Spanish parties having websites
- Tierra Comunera-Partido Nacionalista Castellano
- Trabajadores Nacional-Sindicalistas, unavailable
- Unidad Cívica por la República, aims to restore the Third Republic
- Unificación Comunista de España
- Union del Pueblo Navarro
- UPG: Union of the Gallician People
- Unió Democrática de Catalunya
- Unió Mallorquina
- Unión Centrista
- Unitat Nacional Catalana
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May 14th, 2007 - 12:59
Crikey, that's a monster of a list! I didn't know there were that many political parties in Spain. There are only about 5 or 6 that ever get mentioned. Good starting point for a little project I thought of last night thought.
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May 14th, 2007 - 13:57
I've noticed that Batasuna (banned Basque-nationalists linked to ETA) isn't listed. Perhaps this is because they can't be deemed to be active when they're illegal.
Also, the grouping CiU ought to be included in the list… check out the link, BTWbecause it's fascinating. The UK seems to have even more parties and groupings than Spain!
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May 14th, 2007 - 22:19
Well there is also a lot of regional parties on the list, and some national ones have been split into their regional subdivisions too – Izquierda Unida in particular, but also the PP (Union del Pueblo Navarro) and the PSOE. You could probably cut this list a lot by combining some of these. The Batasuna question is interesting, because the party being accused of acting as a successor (ANV) isn't on the list even though it has been around for many years. Nor is Aralar, which is a non-ETA supporting alternative for radical nationalists. Also missing is EHAK, the last party to be accused of substituting for Batasuna and also completely legal with representatiion in the Basque parliament. So maybe the list should be even longer, not shorter.
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May 15th, 2007 - 00:08
Also not listed are Ciudadanos de Cataluña. It's hard being a left winger and finding the party which best represents your interests. But pity the Falangists too: who do you pick from La Falange, Falange Española de las JONS and Falange Autentica?!
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May 16th, 2007 - 14:43
The Partido Humanista, which is a cult posing as a political party, isn't on the list, and neither is the Partido Nacionalista Caló, the Gypsy Nationalists. I don't see the Plataforma per Catalunya, either, or the Coalición Canaria, which actually has four seats in the Cortes. Is Fuerza Nueva still in business?
One minor quibble: Seems to me that ICV is as much a Communist coalition as a Green one.
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May 16th, 2007 - 15:28
http://www.fuerzanueva.com/ – check out their newsletter. It seems to be recently updated.
Perhaps I'll create a permanent page out of this list, and try to keep it up to date.
There may be some more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Spain
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May 18th, 2007 - 23:52
I'm in one in Mojácar – the toast of the south-eastern guiris.
http://ciudadanoseuropeosdemojacar.com
Rather annoyingly for our town of around 3500 voters, there are thirteen parties campaigning round the clock for those few votes which haven't been bought.
Anyone speak Rumanian?
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December 18th, 2008 - 18:25
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May 27th, 2009 - 18:29
Progreso y Orden es el único partido político independiente que más europeos tiene en España.
Su presidente es un ex Guardia Civil, super conocido por su rectitud y buen trato, ayudando a las personas necesitadas, hacían falta muchos políticos como este hombre.
http://www.progresoyorden.com
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May 27th, 2009 - 18:35
I refer you to my previous post about Progreso y Orden: http://www.thebadrash.com/2007/05/12/expats-against-immigration/
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March 28th, 2010 - 19:54
No teneis ni puta idea de lo que decis, progreso y orden es el mejor partido español que hay, y el unico que defiende a los españoles, si todo lo que sabeis es mirando internet, no teneis idea de nada.
Cuando un partido se opone a la corrupcion politica, se le acusa de todo, asi nos va en españa
Yo seguire votanto a progreso y orden
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December 24th, 2010 - 12:05
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