Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left | |
Native Name: | Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds–Esquerra Unida i Alternativa |
Successor: | Catalunya Sí que es Pot En Comú Podem |
Ideology: | Republicanism Federalism Socialism Communism Eco-socialism Laicism Ecologism Progressivism Catalanism |
Merger: | ICV EUiA |
Position: | Left-wing |
Regional: | Catalan Agreement of Progress (2003–2015) |
National: | The Left (2009–2014) |
Country: | Spain |
State: | Catalonia |
Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left (Catalan; Valencian: Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds–Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, ICV–EUiA) was an electoral alliance formed by Initiative for Catalonia Greens and United and Alternative Left to contest elections in Catalonia. Since 2015 both parties have participated in several coalitions: En Comú Podem for the 2015 and 2016 general elections, Catalunya Sí que es Pot for the 2015 Catalan regional election, and Catalunya en Comú for the 2017 Catalan regional election. Currently, they are represented in the Spanish Congress of Deputies within En Comú Podem and in the Parliament of Catalonia within Catalunya en Comú–Podem.
Party | Notes | ||
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Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV) | |||
United and Alternative Left (EUiA) | |||
The Greens–Green Option (EV–OV) | Joined in October 2011 (within Plural Left).[1] [2] |
Parliament of Catalonia | |||||||
Election | Leading candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Government | |
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2003 | Joan Saura | 241,163 | 7.28 (#5) | 6 | |||
2006 | 282,693 | 9.52 (#5) | 3 | ||||
2010 | Joan Herrera | 230,824 | 7.37 (#4) | 2 | |||
2012 | 359,705 | 9.90 (#5) | 3 |
Cortes Generales | |||||||
Election | Catalonia | ||||||
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Congress | Senate | ||||||
Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Seats | +/– | ||
2004 | 234,790 | 5.84 (#5) | 1 | 1 | |||
2008 | 183,338 | 4.92 (#5) | 1 | 0 | |||
2011 | 280,152 | 8.09 (#4) | 2 | 0 |