The Castilian Party (, PCAS), formerly the Party of Castile and León until 2011, is a Spanish political party resulting from the union of several Castilian nationalist and regionalist political parties from

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

, Madrid and Castile-La Mancha. The most relevant of the components is

Tierra Comunera Tierra Comunera ( en, Commoners' Land, TC) is a Castilian nationalism, Castilian nationalist political party in the Spain, Spanish historical region of Castile (historical region), Castile. It is modelled after the Basque nationalism, Basque and ...

Ideology

The Castilian Party wishes to be an alternative to the classic two-party system in Castile. They also state their support for Castilian historical heritage and the environment. From their foundational congress on 24 October 2009, in Toledo onwards, their ideology has been

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and Castilian nationalist. For this reason, they intend to recover the dissolved sense of Castilian identity and to turn Castile into Spain's financial and political engine by overcoming Castilian endemic problems like depopulation, population aging, youth emigration, and despotism. All of said problems have been publicly denounced by the party. The party seeks to recover the political union of Castile as a single territory, which is currently split into five regions: Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Madrid, Cantabria and La Rioja. Provincias-castellanas

History

In July 2010, the party announced to run for the Catalan regional parliament election with the name of ''Castilian Party–Party of the Cultures of Catalonia''. In the Spanish general election 2011, the party ran for the election in association with the

Cantabrian Regionalist Party The Regionalist Party of Cantabria ( es, Partido Regionalista de Cantabria, PRC) is the second oldest political party in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Cantabria. The PRC originated in the Association in Defense of the Interests of Cantab ...

Party split

Since the party's creation, there were two very different political currents: one more official (which supported the union of the whole of Castile), and another much stronger in support to simpler regionalist ideas (which supported the political reality in force). During the party congress in October 2011, a majority of party members unanimously approved a new political strategy and changed the former name "Party of Castile and León" to simply the "Castilian Party". This initiative was promoted and supported by the party directorate and caused the regionalist current to quit the party. The splinter group decided to found a new party called the

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(PRCAL).La presentación del PRCAL oficializa la escisión en el Partido Castellano
, ''El Correo de Burgos'', 1 de febrero de 2012.

Results

General elections

Cortes of Castile and León The Cortes of Castile and León (Spanish: ''Cortes de Castilla y León'') is the elected unicameral legislature of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León. The tradition of the regional Cortes is traced back to the Royal Council (Latin: ' ...

Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha The Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha (Spanish: ''Cortes de Castilla-La Mancha'') is the unicameral legislature of Castilla–La Mancha, an Autonomous communities in Spain, autonomous community of Spain. The Cortes consists of 33 elected deputies. Th ...

Assembly of Madrid

Local elections

Notes

References

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External links

Web del PCAS
in Spanish)
Web del PCAL
in Spanish)

in Spanish)
El Partido de Castilla y León (PCAL) presenta en Valladolid su gestora regional.(Marzo de 2009)
in Spanish) Nationalist parties in Spain Castilian nationalism Castile (historical region) Regionalist parties in Spain Left-wing nationalist parties