Aragonese Party

The Partido Aragonés, short PAR, is a regional party in the Spanish autonomous community of Aragon.

The PAR was 1978 from the candidatura Aragonesa Independiente de Centro ( CAIC ) out. This had been founded a few months earlier to take part in the first free elections to the Cortes Generales as a splinter group of the total Spanish UCD.

The PAR was founded with the name Partido Aragonés Regional Ista and renamed in 1990 in Partido Aragonés to.

It is uninterrupted since the first term ( 1983 election ) in the regional parliament, the Cortes de Aragón represented.

In the regional government of Aragon, the PAR was 1987-1993 and 1995-1999 represented in a coalition with the conservative PP and 1999-2011 in a coalition with the Socialist PSOE, where she presented the prime ministers of the region from 1987 to 1993.

In total Spanish level, the PAR was represented from 1979 to 1996 in the House of Representatives of the Cortes Generales, where they each took only in the three Aragonese constituencies ( provinces ) to choose from. In 1982, she was part of an electoral alliance with the conservative AP and the Christian Democratic PDP and 1996 an electoral alliance with the conservative PP.

Programmatic

The PAR sees itself as defender Aragonese interests and demands the highest possible under the Spanish Constitution degree of autonomy for the region. She rejects the foreseen in the National Hydrological Plan branches ( trasvases ) of waters of the Ebro to other regions. She arranges itself as a party of the political center.