Drago Project () is a political party of the
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; ) or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, Autonomous Community of Spain. They are located in the northwest of Africa, with the closest point to the cont ...
created by former
Podemos secretary Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez on 24 October 2022. The party plans to run for the regional elections in Spain in 2023.
Background
On 20 January 2021, the
Supreme Court of Spain
The Supreme Court ('', TS'') is the Supreme court, highest court in the Spain, Kingdom of Spain. The court has original jurisdiction over cases against high-ranking officials of the Kingdom and over cases regarding the legalization of political p ...
indicted Rodríguez for an alleged crime of attack against authority and misdemeanor or misdemeanor injury for incidents that occurred in 2014. The high court began the procedure once the
Congress of Deputies
The Congress of Deputies () is the lower house of the , Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate of Spain, Senate. The Congress meets in the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid, Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid.
Congress has ...
accepted the request requested in December 2020. In October 2021, he was convicted of attacking authority, having to pay a fine of 540 euros in compensation for avoiding imprisonment and being disqualified from holding public office. He was disqualified as a deputy on October 22, 2021, after a few weeks of controversy between the Supreme Court and the Congress of Deputies. On October 23, he announced that he was leaving
Podemos.
In January 2023, Rodríguez announced that the party had joined the
Más País
Más País (MP), or More Country, was a political party in Spain. It was an electoral platform formed by Íñigo Errejón around Más Madrid in order to contest the November 2019 general election.
The party was positioned on the left-wing of th ...
coalition of left-wing and regionalist parties.
Coalition(s)
During February 2023 the party formed a coalition comprised by four parties. However, in the following month,
Canaries Now left the alliance.
Ideology
It claims to be a "Canarian obedience" project, which should not depend on any ideology.
Electoral performance
Parliament of the Canary Islands
References
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Political parties established in 2022
Political parties in the Canary Islands
2022 establishments in Spain
Left-wing nationalist parties in Spain
Canarian nationalist parties