Popular Unity (Spain)
Political party in Spain
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Popular Unity (Spanish: Unidad Popular) was a political and electoral alliance in Spain. The alliance was organized in 2015 to contest the 2015 general election. Alberto Garzón was its lead candidate.[3][4] In the 2015 election, it won two seats in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies.[5]
Popular Unity Unidad Popular | |
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| Abbreviation | IU–UPeC |
| Candidate | Alberto Garzón |
| Founded | 22 October 2015 |
| Dissolved | 9 May 2016 |
| Merger of | IU CHA Batzarre CLI–AS IzCa IAS Segoviemos |
| Preceded by | Plural Left |
| Succeeded by | Unidos Podemos |
| Ideology | Socialism Republicanism Feminism Anti-capitalism[1][2] |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Website | |
| unidadpopular | |
Composition
| Party | Scope | |
|---|---|---|
| United Left (IU) | — | |
| Popular Unity in Common (UPeC) | — | |
| Aragonese Union (CHA) | Aragon | |
| Asturian Left (IAS) | Asturias | |
| Left (I–E) | Navarre | |
| Building the Left–Socialist Alternative (CLI–AS) | — | |
| Segoviemos (Segoviemos) | Segovia | |
| Castilian Left (IzCa) | Valladolid | |
Electoral performance
Cortes Generales
| Cortes Generales | ||||||||
| Election | Leading candidate | Congress | Senate | Gov. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| 2015 | Alberto Garzón | 926,783 | 3.7 (#5) | 2 / 350 |
2,372,637 | 3.6 (#5) | 0 / 208 |
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