Unidad del Pueblo (; UP) is a

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 ...

left-wing nationalist Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social hierarchies. Left-wing poli ...

party.

Objectives

UP seeks independence for the

and building a

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

society. The party defends a leading paper of the

working class The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most c ...

in the process of achieving its goals.

History

UP was formed by former members of other

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...

Canarian nationalist political parties. Unidad del Pueblo supported Alternativa Popular Canaria (APC) from 2002 to 2005, when political differences between the two organizations arise. UP gained a town councillor in the 1999 and 2003 local elections in

Santa Lucía de Tirajana Santa Lucía de Tirajana is a town and a Municipalities of Spain, Spanish municipality in the south-eastern part of the island of Gran Canaria, in the Province of Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. Geography The town of Santa Lucía de Tirajan ...

. Since 2007 UP began to present lists in all the elections held in the

. The party achieved 1,400 votes in the regional elections of that year and 1,800 in the municipal ones, losing the only councilman the party had. In 2009, it was one of the parties supporting the candidacy Iniciativa Internacionalista in the

European elections Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's. Until 2019, 751 ...

. In the European elections of 2014 UP supported the coalition

The Peoples Decide The Peoples Decide (; ; ; ; , LPD) was a Spanish electoral list in the European Parliament election in 2014 made up from left-wing pro-independence parties. It included Basque Country Gather (EH Bildu) together with Gorripidea, the Galician Nati ...

. In the local elections of 2015 the party ran in coalition with United Canarian Left, Republican Alternative and The Greens, gaining one town councillor (Antonio Ordoñez Sánchez) in

.Coorporación Municipal de Santa Lucía de Tirajana

References

External links

Website of the UP
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