Socialist Party of Aragon (in
Spanish
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: ''Partido Socialista de Aragón'') was a
democratic socialist
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political party
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in
Aragón
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,
Spain
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.
History
PSA was formed in 1976 by the Socialist Alliance of Aragón, members of the magazine and cultural group ''Andalán'' and independents close to socialist Aragonesism. The party was formed in the home of
Ángela Abós Ballarín
Ángela Abós Ballarín (1 October 1934 – 16 July 2022) was a Spanish writer and politician from Aragon. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Ballarín served in the Cortes of Aragon from 1991 until 1999.
Early life and educati ...
. The Aragonese section of Socialist Reconstruction, a group of members of the
Unión Sindical Obrera
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trade union, also joined the party later. The party joined the
Federation of Socialist Parties 7 March 1976.
In the
elections of 1977 the party gained one seat in the
Congress of Deputies
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, in a coalition with the
People's Socialist Party called Socialist Unity. In 1978, some members of the party joined the
PSOE
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, the majority of them from the moderate wing of the party. Other members of the party, from the more radical and nationalist wing, formed the
Nationalist Movement of Aragón the same year, along with people from the Rolde de Estudios Nacionalistas Aragonés association.
The party disappeared in 1983, after several electoral failures. Their members split between those that joined the
Socialist Party
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and the ones that joined the
Nationalist Movement
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.
See also
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People's Socialist Party
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Chunta Aragonesista
The Chunta Aragonesista (CHA; )Rendering the party's name has created some confusions due to the similarity with the Spanish word ''junta''. The right translation of Aragonese ''chunta'' is ''unión'' in Spanish and '' union'' in English. This is ...
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