List of political parties in Catalonia explained

This article lists the political parties in Catalonia represented in the Parliament, their ideologies, leaders, number of MPs and their positions on Catalan independence.

Parties represented in the Catalan Parliament

Party				Ideology	Catalan independence	Leader	MPs
		Socialists' Party of Catalonia	PSC–PSOE	Social democracy, Spanish unionism, Catalanism		Salvador Illa
		Together for Catalonia	Junts	Catalan nationalism, Populism		Laura Borràs
		Republican Left of Catalonia	ERC	Republicanism, Social democracy, Left-wing nationalism		Oriol Junqueras
		People's Party of Catalonia	PPC	Liberal conservatism, Christian democracy, Spanish unionism		Alejandro Fernández
		Vox	VOX			Ignacio Garriga
		Commons Unite	Comuns Sumar	Eco-socialism, Left-wing populism, Catalanism		Jéssica Albiach
		Popular Unity Candidacy	CUP			Laia Estrada
		Catalan Alliance	Aliança.cat	Catalan nationalism, Right-wing populism		Sílvia Orriols

Minor parties

Logo		Name	Abbr.	Ideology	Catalan independence
		Animalist Party with the Environment Partit Animalista Amb el Medi Ambient	PACMA	Animal welfare, Animal rights, Environmentalism, Veganism
		Citizens	CS	Liberalism, Spanish nationalism
		Communists of Catalonia Comunistes de Catalunya	Comunistes.cat
		Republican Alternative Partit Republicà d'Esquerra - Alternativa Republicana de Catalunya	PRE - ALTER	Republicanism, Federalism, Eco-socialism, Socialist feminism	Its political proposal is the Spanish Federal Republic.
		Zero Cuts–Green Group Recortes Cero–Grupo Verde	Recortes Cero–GV	Anti-austerity, Eco-socialism, Feminism, Spanish unionism
		National Front of Catalonia Front Nacional de Catalunya	FNC	Catalan nationalism, Anti-immigration
		Som Catalans	SOM	Catalan nationalism, Anti-immigration
		Pirates of Catalonia Pirates de Catalunya	PIRATA.CAT		Since October 2017 supports independence based on the results of the Catalan independence referendum

Defunct parties

• Catalan Action (AC, 1922–1939): Catalan nationalism, Social liberalism.
• Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC, 1936–1997): Communism, Catalanism.
• Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN, 1968–2015): Communism, Catalan separatism.
• Convergence and Union (CiU, 1978–2015): Catalanism, Liberalism.
  • Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC, 1974–2016): Catalanism, Conservative liberalism.
  • Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC, 1931–2017): Catalanism, Christian democracy.
• Platform for Catalonia (PxC, 2002–2019): Spanish unionism, Nativism.