Republican Front () was a Catalan

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and republicanist

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formed for the

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(), We Are Alternative () and

Pirates of Catalonia Pirates of Catalonia (, PIRATA.CAT) is a political party in Catalonia. The party is based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party and is a member of the Pirate Parties International, it supports intellectual property reform, open access to cultu ...

and the support of

La Forja La Forja - Jovent Revolucionari (''The Forge - Revolutionary Youth'') is a left-wing Catalan independence youth organization that is active in all the Catalan Countries. La Forja is part of the Popular Unity Candidacy–Constituent Call (CUP-CC) ...

History

The coalition was presented on March 15, 2019 at the headquarters of the "Escarré International Center for Ethnic and National Minorities" (CIEMEN) and included

, We Are Alternative and

. It was presented in the 2019 Spanish general election and was led by Albano Dante Fachin, Maribel Rodríguez, Guillem Fuster, Mireia Caldés and Roger Español. The coalition fielded candidates in all four Catalan

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in the election. It won 113,807 votes, 2.8% of the total vote in Catalonia, placing eighth overall. However, the coalition fell below the 3% electoral threshold in all but one constituency (

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), and failed to elect any deputies. On May 15, 2019 the three constituent parties of the Republican Front decided to dissolve the coalition. Poble Lliure and the Pirates have both endorsed the candidacy of

Popular Unity Candidacy The Popular Unity Candidacy (, CUP) is a left-wing to far-left pro-Catalan independence political party active primarily in Catalonia, where it has political representation, but also in other autonomous communities in Spain it considers to be part ...

( Catalan: ''Candidatura d'Unitat Popular, CUP)'' for the November 2019 election.

Composition

Electoral results

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