Chunta Aragonesista

Chunta Aragonesista (CHA ) is a left Regional Party of Spain in the Autonomous Community of Aragon. In the parliamentary elections in 2008, she lost her seat in the Spanish Congress of Deputies ( Congreso de los Deputies ).

Ideology

The party stands for a socialist, emancipatory and ecological politics. She is particularly committed to the protection of the river Ebro and rejects the national water plan. A major concern continues to be the self-determination of the population of Aragón.

Policy

Chunta Aragonesista founded on 29 June 1986 as the Unión Aragones Ista - Chunta Aragonesista. She sees herself as the heir to the tradition of the Aragonese parties Estado Aragones Ista Ista and Unión Aragones, who were successful in the early 20th century. She has since its inception gained an enormous amount voters growth, comparable with other regional parties in Spain. Currently, she has after the regional, provincial and municipal elections in 2007 more than 4 seats in the regional parliament of Aragon, 3 seats in the provincial legislature of the province of Zaragoza and the 2 seats in the provincial parliaments of Huesca and Teruel. In the regional capital Zaragoza, where they, together with the PSOE was the city government until 2007, it is one city council, while the PSOE in 2007 won an absolute majority. Overall, the Chunta in the province of Zaragoza 110 town and community councils in the province of Huesca 85 and in the province of Teruel 33

The teacher, writer and songwriter José Antonio Labordeta had from 2000 to 2008 with a mandate in the Spanish Congress of Deputies and is the most famous politicians of the CHA. In 2000, he voted in the election for prime minister against the conservative candidate José María Aznar, 2004, however, the Socialists José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

At European level, the CHA involved in the European Free Alliance (EFA ), the collective movement of European regional parties. Under the alliance, it occurs together with other Spanish parties ( Eusko Alkartasuna, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, Partido Nacionalista Galego Andalucista and Bloque ) to European elections. In the 2004 European elections this list connection reached a seat in the European Parliament, which was occupied first by Bernat Joan i Marí (ERC ), as of June 2007 by Mikel Irujo (EA). The CHA had to turn in the 2004 European election for the first time loss of votes in the traditional strongholds of the party, the Aragonese cities (especially Zaragoza ) accept. However, she was able to expand the country unexpectedly of voters. In 2005, she launched a campaign against the European Constitution, whose ratification was successful, however, by a referendum in Spain.

In the regional elections of 2007, the CHA again lost votes, reaching only four instead of the current nine seats in the regional parliament. The best results it achieved in the districts ( Comarcas ) Valdejalón ( 16.0 %), Sobrabe (15.5%), Campo de Carintilde (14.9%) and Jacetania ( 11.3%).

This trend continued with the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2008 in which the party received less than half of the votes in 2004 and thus lost her parliamentary seat and behind the second Aragonese regional party Partido Aragonés PAR ( 39,905 votes, also 0 seats) fell back. In this election Labordeta had set out no more than the top candidate, but as number two in the list in the province of Zaragoza. Top candidate was Bizen Fuster.

Election results

• Spanish general election, 1996: 0.20% (absolute: 49,739 ) - 0 seats ( 6.4% in Aragon )
• Spanish general election, 2000: 0.33 % (absolute: 75,356 ) - 1 seat ( 10.4% in Aragon )
• Spanish general election, 2004: 0.37 % (absolute: 93 865 ) - 1 seat ( 11.2% in Aragon )
• Spanish general election, 2008: 0.15 % (absolute: 37,995 ) - 0 seats ( 5.00% in Aragon )

• Regional elections Aragon 2003: 14.01 % (absolute: 97 777 ) - 9 seats ( 18.01% in the district of Zaragoza )
• Regional elections Aragon 2007: 8.17% (absolute: 54 483 ) - 4 seats (9.3% in the district of Zaragoza )