Teruel Existe ( en, Teruel Exists, TE) is a Spanish political party based in the

province of Teruel Teruel (Catalan: ''Terol'' ) is a province of Aragon, in the northeast of Spain. The capital is Teruel. It is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Castellón, Valencia (including its exclave Rincón de Ademuz), Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Za ...

. It was founded in November 1999 as a citizen platform with the goal of demanding a fair and equal treatment for the

. In 1999, Teruel still had no

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s, and on the only railway line (which was single-track without electrification) the train had derailed eight times in a year. Encouraged by the success of the strike called for 4 October 2019 in twenty Spanish provinces, to protest the "forgetfulness" suffered by the so-called "empty Spain", the platform chose to establish itself as a

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to contest the upcoming November general election in the province. It became the most voted provincial force, securing one out of the three Teruel Congress seats and two out of its four directly-elected senators, as well as becoming the first grouping of electors since the

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to be successful in entering the Spanish parliament. The platform was instrumental in the

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Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having p ...

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on 5–7 January 2020, for whose support its leader

Tomás Guitarte Tomás José Guitarte Gimeno is a Spanish architect and politician serving as president and sole deputy within the Congress of Deputies for the electoral coalition Teruel Existe. He gained the position of deputy in the Spanish general electio ...

received intense threats and coercion from right-wing to far-right groups, which resulted in the

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having to provide him of a policial escort for security reasons. The platform was registered as a political party on 29 September 2021.

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

References

{{reflist 1999 establishments in Spain Political parties established in 1999 Political parties in Aragon Regionalist parties in Spain