Asturias Forum Explained

Country:Spain
Asturias Forum
Native Name:Foru Asturies
President:Carmen Moriyón
Secretary General:Adrián Pumares
Founder:Francisco Álvarez-Cascos
Founded:19 January 2011
Split:People's Party
Newspaper:El Hormiguero
Youth Wing:Foro Joven (Young Forum)
Membership Year:2011
Membership:6,987[1]
Position:Centre[2] to centre-right[3]
Colors: Blue
Dark blue (formerly)
Seats3 Title:General Junta
Seats1:(Asturian seats)
Seats2 Title:Spanish Senate
Seats2:(Asturian seats)
Seats4 Title:Mayors[4]
Seats5 Title:Local Government

Asturias Forum (Spanish; Castilian: Foro Asturias, Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese: Foru Asturies, Foro), previously known as Forum of Citizens (Spanish; Castilian: Foro de Ciudadanos|links=no, FAC)[5] is a regionalist political party in the Principality of Asturias.

History

Asturias Forum was founded in January 2011 by former Deputy Prime Minister Francisco Álvarez Cascos, who left the People's Party (PP) after failing to be selected as the party's candidate for President of the Principality of Asturias in the 2011 election.

In the Asturian election, Álvarez Cascos led the party under the name "Forum of Citizens" (Spanish; Castilian: Foro de Ciudadanos). FAC won sixteen seats, making it the largest party on the General Council. Together with the PP, FAC's gains gave the centre-right a majority in Asturias for the first time.[6] The party has spoken to all three other parties to create a more consensual political climate.[7]

At the November 2011 Spanish election, the party won one of Asturias's eight seats in the Congress of Deputies.

After months of deadlock in the Asturian regional assembly, fresh elections were held, in which FAC lost 4 seats, becoming the second largest party behind the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

On 12 February 2015, Francisco Álvarez-Cascos surprisingly announced he would not stand again as Asturias Forum's candidate and resigned the presidency of the party.[8] Álvarez-Cascos was succeeded by Cristina Coto, while he went on to become the party's secretary-general.

After the resignation of Cristina Coto due to differences with Álvarez Cascos, Carmen Moriyón, mayoress of Gijón, was elected new president of the party on 29 September 2018.[9]

Presidents

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

Asturias

Congress of Deputies
DateVotesSeatsStatusSizeNotes
%±pp±
201192,82814.7%Opposition3rd
2015187,56830.1%N/A0Oppositiongovernment support
2016209,63235.3%N/A0Oppositiongovernment support
Apr 2019111,34117.9%N/A1Opposition
Nov 2019128,69823.2%N/A1Opposition
 
Senate
DateSeatsSize
±
20113rd
20151
20160
Apr 20191
Nov 20190

General Junta of the Principality of Asturias

ElectionVotes%Seats+/–Government
2011178,03129.7 (#1) 16
2012124,51824.8 (#2) 4
201544,4808.2 (#5) 9
201934,6876.5 (#6) 1
202319,3133.7 (#6) 1

European Parliament

Spain
DateVotesSeatsSize
%±pp±
201432,9620.2%18th
20196,0530.1%–0.122nd
 
Asturias
DateVotesSize
%±pp
201416,0644.2%6th
20196,0531.2%–3.06th

Notes and References

  1. http://www.elcomercio.es/20110226/mas-actualidad/politica/foro-asturias-valida-afiliados-201102261337.html Foro Asturias valida a 6.987 afiliados con derecho a voto para su congreso constitucional.
  2. News: Foro celebra su V Congreso con la vista puesta en consolidarse como partido centrista y autonomista . . 30 September 2022 . 5 October 2022. es.
  3. News: El centro derecha, a las puertas . E. . Campo . . 2011-05-23 . 2011-05-25.
  4. https://www.eldiario.es/politica/MAPA-Radiografia-municipal-alcaldesas-Espana_0_912009733.html MAPA | Radiografía del nuevo poder municipal: consulta los nombres de todos los alcaldes y alcaldesas de España
  5. https://www.foroasturias.es/avisolegal/ Aviso Legal
  6. News: Cascos gana las elecciones y la derecha obtiene mayoría absoluta por primera vez . J. E. . Mencía . . 25 May 2011 . 25 May 2011. es.
  7. News: Cascos llama a PSOE, PP e IU a un "consenso básico", inspirado en los pactos de la Moncloa . José A. . Ordóñez . . 25 May 2011 . 25 May 2011. es.
  8. http://www.elcomercio.es/politica/201502/11/alvarez-cascos-sera-candidato-20150211225857.html Cascos renuncia a encabezar la candidatura de su partido en las elecciones regionales
  9. Web site: Carmen Moriyón, nueva presidenta de Foro Asturias. La Nueva España. es. 29 September 2018. 2 October 2018. Carmen Moriyón, new president of Asturias Forum.