The Pacte Progressista ( en, Progressive Pact, Pacte), officially the Pacte Progressista d'Eivissa ( en, Progressive Pact of Ibiza), was an electoral alliance formed in Ibiza by the

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, United Left of Ibiza, The Greens of Ibiza,

Entesa Nacionalista i Ecologista Entesa d'Eivissa ( en, Agreement of Ibiza, Entesa), founded in 1989 as Entesa Nacionalista i Ecologista d'Eivissa ( en, Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement of Ibiza, ENEE), and officially known from 1990 to 2012 as Entesa Nacionalista i Ecologist ...

( en, Nationalist and Ecologist Agreement of Ibiza) and

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to contest the

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and

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regional elections. Previously, it had contested the 1996 Senate election in both Ibiza and

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as ''Eivissa i Formentera al Senat'' ( en, Ibiza and Formentera in the Senate), and it would also contest the 2000 Senate election as the ''Pacte per Eivissa i Formentera'' ( en, Pact for Ibiza and Formentera).

Background

Ahead of the 1996 general election, Ibiza and Formentera only elected one senator to the Spanish Cortes. The disunity of the nationalist and left-of-centre forces always meant that the senator was won by right-of-centre parties. As a result, the Pact was meant as a unitary candidacy of all left parties, obtaining a great electoral success by winning the senator from the People's Party.

Composition

References

Political parties in the Balearic Islands Defunct political party alliances in Spain Political parties established in 1996 Political parties disestablished in 2006 {{Spain-party-stub