Spain: Political parties and movements

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• Introduction
• Parties currently holding seats in Parliament (Congreso de los Diputados) (ordered by number of seats):
  • Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español / PSOE)
  • Popular Party (Partido Popular / PP)
  • Convergence and Union (Convergència i Unió / CiU)
  • Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya / ERC)
  • Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco / EAJ-PNV)
  • United Left (Izquierda Unida / IU)
  • Socialist Unified Party of Catalonia (Partido Socialista Unificado de Cataluña)
  • Canary Coalition (Colaición Canaria / CC)

• Other nationwide, non-parliamentary parties (in alphabetical order):
  • Confederation of National Labor - Iberian Anarchist Federation (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo – Federación Anarquista Ibérica / CNT-FAI)
  • Spanish Catholic Movement (Movimiento Católico Español / MCE)
  • Spanish Phalanx (Falange Española de las JONS / FE de las JONS / La Falange)
    • Free Fatherland (Patria Libre)
  • Spanish Youth Action (Acción Juvenil Española / AJE)

• Other regional and nationalist parties:
  • Andalusian Nationalist Movements
  • Aragonese Nationalist Parties
  • Asturian Nationalist Parties
  • Balearic Islands Nationalist Movements
  • Basque Nationalist Movements
  • Canary Nationalist Parties
  • Cantabrian Nationalist Movements
  • Castilian Nationalist Parties
  • Catalan Nationalist Flags
  • Galician Nationalist Parties
  • Leonese Nationalist Parties

• Disbanded parties:
  • Popular Alliance (Alianza Popular / AP)
  • Independent Liberal Group (Grupo Independiente Liberal / GIL)
  • New Force (Frente Nacional / FRN)
  • National Front (Fuerza Nueva / FN)

• Political Movements:
  • Anarchists
  • Anti-Abortion Campaigners
  • Extreme-Right and Neo-Nazis

See also:

• Trade Unions (Spain)
• Political Parties 1931-1939 (Spain)
• Mistaken Variants of the 1945-1977 flag used by political parties nowadays
• Spain

See also:

• Listado de partidos políticos (extensive list of all political parties) at the Spanish Ministry of Interior website

Introduction

Most party flags, such as those of the Partido Popular (right-wing / centre / christian-democrat, in government 1996-2004), Partido Socialista Obrero Español (socialdemocrat, in government 1982-1996 and 2004-) and Izquierda Unida (a coalition of communist, socialist and republican parties) are logo-on-bedsheets rather than proper flags.

Santiago Dotor, 06 Oct 1998

Anti-Abortion Campaigners

image by Eugene Ipavec, 03 Oct 2010

A flag of Spanish anti-abortion campaigners could be seen in a Yahoo News photo from 2009: red, with a white-outline smiling cartoon heart over the text "DERECHO A VIVIR" on two lines in an irregular, "childlike" hand.

Eugene Ipavec, 03 Oct 2010