Alternativa Popular Canaria (APC, ) is a Canarian nationalist leftist party founded in 2002, and part of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Canario (MLNC, Canarian National Liberation Movement). Its creation was spurred by the youth organisation Azarug and several municipal parties, as well as members of various leftist nationalist parties.

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, a municipal party which stood for Valsequillo in

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, and the leftist independence party Unidad del Pueblo, while not members of APC, have collaborated with that party in certain matters.

History

In the municipal elections of 2003, APC gained a council seat in the municipality of

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(

Tenerife Tenerife ( ; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands, an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. With a land area of and a population of 965,575 inhabitants as of A ...

). In

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they ran as ''Iniciativa por La Orotava'' (IPO, Initiative for La Orotava) along with Los Verdes de Canarias, obtaining five council seats. In the European Parliament elections of June 2004, APC backed Europe of the Peoples. The party held its second National Assembly 25–26 June 2005, and its third on 16 September 2006. In 2006 a split within the party in Tenerife produced the offshoot Canarian Nationalist Alternative. APT participated in the 2007 Canarian Parliament elections, in coalition with the

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(Citizen Alternative May 25), but failed to gain any seats. In the 2007 Spanish municipal elections they lost their seat in

(the local branch having split from the party) but won three seats in

. The Cabildo of Tenerife, as well as the municipalities of

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, San Cristobal de La Laguna,

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Buenavista del Norte left, Place in Buenavista del Norte Buenavista del Norte is a municipality and town on the north west coast of Tenerife, located on route TF42, about 75 km west of the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 65 km from Tenerife North Airport ...

and

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, supported

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(Alternative Yes We Can for Tenerife), a political option into which APC was integrated. In the 2009 European Parliament elections, the APC backed

Iniciativa Internacionalista Internationalist Initiative–Solidarity among Peoples (II–SP) (Spanish: ''Iniciativa Internacionalista–La Solidaridad entre los Pueblos'', Basque: ''Iniziatiba Internazionalista - Herrien Elkartasuna'', Catalan: ''Iniciativa Internacional ...

, an

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Spanish coalition. In its fourth National Assembly, APC decided not to stand in any further elections, remaining instead within the Alternativa Sí Se Puede por Tenerife. Since APC does not condemn the past violent policies of

MPAIAC The Movement for the Self-Determination and Independence of the Canary Archipelago (, MPAIAC), was a Canarian nationalist and socialist organization, founded in 1964 by Antonio Cubillo, whose objective was the secession of the Canary Islands from ...

, it is viewed by local rightist and pro-Spanish parties as one of the groups that seek to minimize

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in the Canary Islands.Apología del terrorismo en el seno de APC (Alternativa Popular Canaria)
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* {{official website, http://www.alternativapopularcanaria.net Political parties in the Canary Islands Canarian nationalist parties Left-wing nationalist parties in Spain Political parties established in 2002 2002 establishments in Spain

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