Occitan Republican Left ( oc, Esquèrra Republicana Occitana) is an Occitanist political party in

Val d'Aran Aran (; ; ) (previously officially called in Occitan Val d'Aran, Catalan: ''Vall d'Aran'', Spanish: ''Valle de Arán'') is an administrative entity (formerly considered a comarca) in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, consisting of the Aran Valley, in ...

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Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the nort ...

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. Founded in 2008 to contest

Unity of Aran Unity of Aran ( Aranese: ', also ') is a political party in Val d'Aran, Spain. Practically the Aranese section of Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), it is the ruling party of the comarca. Unity of Aran has its roots in Aranese nationalist ' ( ...

( PSC section) and Aranese Democratic Convergence (

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section) at 2011 elections for the Aranese General Council, the party acts practically as the local section of the

Republican Left of Catalonia The Republican Left of Catalonia ( ca, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC; ; generically branded as ) is a pro-Catalan independence, social-democratic political party in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, with a presence also i ...

and is chaired by Jusèp Loís Sans Socasau.Esquerra Republicana Occitana irromp en el panorama polític aranès
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, 17 February 2010 Efforts to establish ERO began in 2005 when it was announced that a new political party in Val d'Aran shall be launched in order to challenge the ongoing UA-CDA hegemony in the ''comarca''. ERO targets to reinforce the Occitan identity of Val d'Aran within Catalonia and opposes centralism, a stance backed by the statute of the Republican Left of Catalonia.Estatuts
The party also maintains a youth organisation named Youth of the Occitan Republican Left (''Joenesses de Esquèrra Republicana Occitana'').

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{{Reflist Political parties in Val d'Aran Republican Left of Catalonia Occitan nationalism