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Unidas Podemos
Unidas Podemos (), formerly called Unidos Podemos () and also known in English as United We Can, was a democratic socialist electoral alliance formed by Podemos, United Left, and other left-wing to far-left parties in May to contest the 2016 Spanish general election. The alliance's official pre-agreement was announced on 9 May 2016 after weeks of negotiations. It was re-styled to the feminine form of its name ahead of the April 2019 Spanish general election. Part of the anti-austerity and anti-globalization movements, it advocates direct democracy, federalism, and republicanism in Spain. After the November 2019 Spanish general election, it formed a coalition government with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. History Background While campaigning for the 2015 Spanish general election, the United Left (IU) promoted the creation of, and later joined, the Now in Common (''Ahora en Común, AeC'') platform, seeking a wide alliance with other left-wing parties. After Podemo ...
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Pablo Iglesias Turrión
Pablo Iglesias Turrión (; born 17 October 1978) is a Spanish political scientist and former politician. During his political career, he served as Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Second Deputy Prime Minister and as Ministry of Social Affairs (Spain), Minister of Social Rights and 2030 Agenda of the Government of Spain from 2020 to 2021. He also served as Member of the Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2021, representing Madrid (Congress of Deputies constituency), Madrid. Iglesias is a co-founder of Podemos (Spanish political party), Podemos, a left-wing political party that he led from 2014 until his resignation in 2021. Before then, he was a lecturer in political science at the Complutense University of Madrid and TV host. He was elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 European Parliament election in Spain, 2014 elections as the leading candidate of the newly created Podemos. On 15 March, he announced that he would be stepping down from the government to run in th ...
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Antonia San Juan
Antonia San Juan Fernández (born 22 May 1961) is a Spanish actress, director and screenwriter. Biography She was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. At 19 she went to Madrid, where she started working as a professional theatre actress and also as a cabaret act in pubs and bars. She became known thanks to her role as Agrado in '' Todo sobre mi madre'' by Pedro Almodóvar. She is well known in Spain not only because of her film career but also for her humorous monologues on television and theatre . Since 2009 she has been acting in the popular Spanish TV series '' La que se avecina'', playing the part of Estela Reynolds, the eccentric mother of Lola. She is an atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ... and is highly critical of religion, calling it a "ca ...
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El Gran Wyoming
José Miguel Monzón Navarro (15 May 1955, Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...), better known by his stage name El Gran Wyoming (''The Great Wyoming''), Wyoming or Guayo, is a Spanish comedian, musician, writer and TV presenter. He has hosted the LaSexta satire show ''El Intermedio'' since 2006. Books *1990, ''Un vago, dos vagos, tres vagos''. Ed. Temas de Hoy. *1993, ''Te quiero personalmente''. Editorial Anagrama. *1997, ''Las aventuras del mapache''. Ed. Alfaguara. *2000, ''Janos, el niño que soñaba despierto''. Ed. Agruparte. Colección de Cuentos Musicales "La mota de polvo" *2013, ''No estamos locos''. Planeta. *2014, ''No estamos solos''. Planeta. *2016, ''¡De rodillas, Monzón!''. Planeta. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gran Wyoming, E ...
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2015 Catalan Regional Election
The 2015 Catalan regional election was held on Sunday, 27 September 2015, electing the 11th Parliament of Catalonia, Parliament of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election. This was the third regional Catalan election in only five years, after the 2010 Catalan regional election, 2010 and 2012 Catalan regional election, 2012 elections and the first one in over 37 years in which Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) ran separately, after the dissolution of Convergence and Union (CiU) in June 2015 over disagreements on the coalition's separatist turn. The plan to hold a snap election in 2015 was announced on 14 January by President of the Government of Catalonia, President Artur Mas. After the non-binding 2014 Catalan self-determination referendum, 2014 independence referendum, Mas declared that the election was to be turned into an alternative vote on inde ...
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Catalunya Sí Que Es Pot
Catalunya Sí que es Pot (, also translated as "Catalonia It Is Possible" or "Yes, Catalonia Can") was a left-wing coalition composed of Podemos, Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) and United and Alternative Left United and Alternative Left (, EUiA) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. EUiA has 4000 members, and until 2019 was the Catalan correspondent of the Spain-wide United Left (IU). It was formed in 1998 as a schism from Initiative for Catal ... (EUiA). It was formed in 2015 to stand in the Catalan election scheduled for 27 September that year. CSQP secured 367,613 votes (8.94% of the vote) and 11 seats in the 2015 Catalan election. Composition Electoral performance Parliament of Catalonia Notes References 2015 establishments in Catalonia 2017 disestablishments in Catalonia Defunct political party alliances in Spain Podemos (Spanish political party) Political parties in Catalonia Political parties established in 2015 Political parties dise ...
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Popular Unity (Spain)
Popular Unity () was a political and electoral alliance in Spain. The alliance was organized in 2015 to contest the 2015 general election. Alberto Garzón was its lead candidate. In the 2015 election, it won two seats in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies. Composition Electoral performance Congress of Deputies Senate References {{Spanish political parties 2015 establishments in Spain Defunct left-wing political party alliances Defunct political party alliances in Spain Political parties established in 2015 Republican parties in Spain Unidas Podemos Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ... United Left (Spain) ...
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2015 Spanish General Election
A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 20 December 2015, to elect the members of the 11th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate of Spain, Senate. At exactly four years and one month since the previous election, this remains the longest timespan between two general elections since the Spanish transition to democracy, and the only time in Spain that a general election has been held on the latest possible date allowed under law. After a legislature plagued by the effects of an ongoing 2008–16 Spanish financial crisis, economic crisis, corruption scandals affecting the ruling party and social distrust with traditional parties, the election resulted in the most fragmented Spanish parliament up to that time. While the People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP) of incumbent Prime Minister of Spain, prime minister Mariano Rajoy emerged as the largest party overall, it obtained it ...
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Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( , PSOE ) is a Social democracy, social democratic Updated as required.The PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * List of political parties in Spain, political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government longer than any other political party in modern democratic Spain: from 1982 to 1996 under Felipe González, 2004 to 2011 under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and since 2018 under Pedro Sánchez. The PSOE was founded in 1879, making it the oldest party currently active in Spain. The PSOE played a key role during the Second Spanish Republic, being part of the coalition government from 1931 to 1933 and 1936 to 1939, when the republic was defeated in the Spanish Civil War. The party was then banned under the Francoist Spain, Francoist dictatorship and its members and leaders were persecuted or exiled; the ban was only lifted in 1977 in the Spanish transition to democracy, transition to democracy. His ...
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Coalition Government
A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive. Coalition governments usually occur when no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an election. A party not having majority is common under proportional representation, but not in nations with majoritarian electoral systems. There are different forms of coalition governments, minority coalitions and surplus majority coalition governments. A surplus majority coalition government controls more than the absolute majority of seats in parliament necessary to have a majority in the government, whereas minority coalition governments do not hold the majority of legislative seats. A coalition government may also be created in a time of national difficulty or crisis (for example, during wartime or economic crisis) to give a government the high degree of perceived political legitimacy or collective identity, it can also play a ro ...
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November 2019 Spanish General Election
A general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 10 November 2019, to elect the members of the 14th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 265 seats in the Senate. The election was held as provided under article 99.5 of the Spanish Constitution, as a result of the failure in government formation negotiations between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos following Pedro Sánchez's failed investiture voting on 23–25 July 2019. On 17 September 2019, King Felipe VI declined to propose any candidate for investiture ahead of the 23 September deadline as a result of the lack of agreement between parties, with a new general election scheduled for 10 November. The failure in negotiations prompted Podemos founder Íñigo Errejón to turn his regional Más Madrid platform—which had obtained a remarkable result in the 26 May Madrilenian regional election—into a national alliance under the newly created brand of ...
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Republicanism In Spain
Republicanism in Spain is a political position and movement that believes Spain should be a republic. There has existed in Spain a persistent trend of Republicanism, republican thought, especially throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, that has manifested itself in diverse political parties and movements over the entire course of the history of Spain. While these movements have shared the objective of establishing a republic, during these three centuries there have surged distinct schools of thought on the form republicans would want to give to the Spanish Sovereign state, State: Unitary state, unitary or Federal republic, federal. Despite the country's long-lasting schools of republican movements, the government of Spain has been organized as a republic during only two short periods in its history, which totaled 9 years and 8 months of republican government. The First Spanish Republic lasted from February 1873 to December 1874, and the Second Spanish Republic lasted fro ...
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