Zero Cuts Explained

Country:Spain
Zero Cuts
Native Name:Recortes Cero
Leader:Nuria Suárez
Membership Year:2016
Membership:3,741
Foundation:2014
Ideology:Eco-socialism
Feminism
Anti-austerity
Position:Left-wing

Zero Cuts (Spanish; Castilian: '''Recortes Cero''') is a Spanish eco-socialist political party, initially founded as a group of electors, formed to contest the 2014 European Parliament election. Subsequently, it has contested the 2015 and 2016 general elections together with The Greens–Green Group.[1] [2] It is supported by the Communist Unification of Spain.In the 2019 Spanish general election, the filmmaker Fernando Colomo was the Madrid candidate to the Spanish Senate for the coalition Zero Cuts – The GreensCastilian PartyCommoners' Land.His aim was to promote the list rather than becoming elected.[3]

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

ElectionPopular voteSeatsLeader
Votes%CongressSenate
201548,6750.2
  1. 16
Nuria Suárez
201651,9070.2
  1. 11
2019 (april)47,3630.2
  1. 17
2019 (november)35,0420.1
  1. 17
202323,4210.1
  1. 18

European Parliament

ElectionPopular voteSeatsCandidate
Votes%
201430,8270.2
  1. 20
Nuria Suárez
201950,0020.2
  1. 12
2024t.b.at.b.at.b.at.b.a

Notes and References

  1. News: Rodríguez Álvarez . Sabela . 21 June 2016 . Recortes Cero, un partido "al servicio de los que han sufrido la crisis" . Spanish . infoLibre . . 25 March 2017.
  2. News: Muela . Daniel . 23 June 2016 . Los partidos que quedaron a las puertas del Congreso el 20D . Spanish . El País . Madrid . 25 March 2017.
  3. https://www.publico.es/politica/elecciones-2019-intelectuales-tendrian-pringarse-pringan-politica-emergencia-nacional.html Fernando Colomo: "Los intelectuales tendrían que pringarse más de lo que se pringan en política"