Canarian Coalition
The Coalition Canaria (CC ) is a regional party founded from a group of nationalists, conservatives and ex-communists in 1993 in the Canary Islands, which form an autonomous region of Spain.
The Coalition Canaria arose from the following regional parties:
- Agrupaciones Independientes de Canarias (AIC )
- Iniciativa Canaria Nacionalista ( ICAN )
- Asamblea Majorera (AM)
- Partido Nacionalista Canario (PNC )
- Centro Canario Nacionalista (CCN)
These regional parties were established after the end of the military dictatorship of Francisco Franco in 1975 and the establishment of democracy in Spain, as the hitherto suppressed pluralism was re-admitted. They argued, for example, for a revival of the Canarian culture, or even for political independence and the move to the states of North Africa. Thus, these parties were alone but hardly a majority, so they banded together in 1993 in the Canary Coalition. Some of the founding parties, such as the PNC, but came back later out of the alliance. In February 2005, several former ICAN members split off and formed the new party Nueva Canarias (NC).
Since May 2005, the CC ruling party is in the Canary Islands and is in many towns mayor. On the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro and Fuerteventura is the island 's ruling party governments ( cabildos insulares ). Current party leader and President of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero Baute is. However, during the regional elections in May 2007, only the second strongest faction behind the socialist PSOE and has since formed a coalition government with the conservative People's Party (PP). In regional elections in May 2011, the Popular Party was the largest party in front of the CC and the PSOE.
In the Spanish general elections of 2004, the CC obtained three seats in the House of Representatives and was initially able to form an independent faction. However, one of the three parliamentarians in 2005 the newly founded Nueva Canarias joined and left after a transitional phase in 2007 the fraction dissolved and then in the " mixed group " integrated. Among the Spanish general elections of 2008, the CC entered in a list associated with the PNC; both parties reached two seats together.