Politics of Catalonia

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Executive branch: Catalan Government President First Minister Head of Opposition Ministers The Generalitat de Catalunya is the institution in which the self-government of Catalonia (a country in Spain) is politically organised. ... Pasqual Maragall i Mira (born January 13, 1941) is the 127th President of Generalitat de Catalunya (the autonomous system of government of the Spanish Region of Catalonia). ... Order: 3rd First Minister of the Generalitat de Catalunya Term of office: February 20, 2004 – present Preceded by: Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira Succeeded by: incumbent Date of birth: Friday, October 3, 1958 Place of birth: Torredembarra (Tarragonès) Political party: ERC Josep Bargalló i Valls (born in Torredembarra, on... Order: 1st First Minister of the Generalitat de Catalunya Term of office: January 17, 2001 – December 16, 2003 Preceded by: Succeeded by: Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira Date of birth: Tuesday, January 3, 1956 Place of birth: Barcelona (Barcelonès) Political party: CiU Artur Mas i Gavarró is a Catalan... Former Ministers were: So the statistics of the Government composition are: ...

Legislative branch: Catalan Parliament President Board Plenary Assembly Parliamentary Groups This is the main article about the Catalan Parliament and its activity. ... Categories: Presidents of Catalan Parliament | 1959 births | Catalan people | Catalan politicians | ERC affiliates | Members of the Catalan Parliament ... Members President Ernest Benach i Pascual (ERC Parliamentary Group) Entered: December 5, 2003 (BOPC, 1) First Vicepresident Higini Clotas i Cierco (PSC Parliamentary Group) Entered: December 5, 2003 (BOPC, 1) Second Vicepresident Ramon Camp i Batalla (CiU Parliamentary Group) Entered: December 5, 2003 (BOPC, 1) First Secretary Anna Miranda i... ... CiU Parliamentary Group President Artur Mas i Gavarró Entered: December 16, 2003 (BOPC, 3) Spokesperson Felip Puig i Godes Entered: December 16, 2003 (BOPC, 3) Assistant spokesperson Josep Maria Pelegrí i Aixut Entered: December 16, 2003 (BOPC, 3) Secretary Jaume Camps i Rovira Entered: December 16, 2003 (BOPC, 13) PSC...

Judicial branch Superior Justice Court of Catalonia

Territorial divisions Vegueries Províncies Comarques Municipalities This is a list of the comarques (singular comarca) of Catalonia. ...

Elections 2003, 1999, 1995, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980 Result chart of 2003 elections General By constituencies Participation Chart General By constituencies ... Result chart of 1999 elections General ...

Parties: PSC, CiU (CDC and UDC), ERC, PP, ICV-EUiA Logo of the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC) party Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (Socialist Party of Catalonia) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. ... Convergence and Unity (Convergència i Unió, CiU) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. ... The Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. ... The Democratic Union of Catalonia is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. ... Logo of the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) party. ... From the left: Mariano Rajoy, Josep Piqué and José María Aznar during the proclamation act of Josep Piqué in September 2003 The Peoples Party (Spanish: Partido Popular) is a large conservative political party in Spain. ... United and Alternative Left (Esquerra Unida i Alternativa) is a political party from Catalonia, Spain. ...

Logo of the ICV

Initiative for Catalonia - Greens (Iniciativa per Catalunya - Verds, ICV) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. It was formed as a merger of Iniciativa per Catalunya and Els Verds. IC had been an alliance led by Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya and was the referrent of Izquierda Unida in Catalonia. IC later developed into a political party, and PSUC was dissolved. Image File history File links IC-V logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links IC-V logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ... The PSUC (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia), was formed through the unification fo socialist and communist parties in Catalonia in 1936. ... United Left (Izquierda Unida) is an electoral coalition that was organized in 1986 during the mobilizations in Spain against NATO. It was formed by several groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was always dominated by the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). ... Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ...

The youth of ICV is called Joves d'Esquerra Verda (Green Left Youth). It used to be called JambI, Joves amb Iniciativa (Youth of the Initiative).

In the elections to the European Parliament in 2004 ICV ran on the Izquierda Unida list. One MEP, Raül Romeva, was elected from ICV which joined the Green Group. The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... United Left (Izquierda Unida) is an electoral coalition that was organized in 1986 during the mobilizations in Spain against NATO. It was formed by several groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was always dominated by the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). ... The European Greens - European Free Alliance (The Greens/European Free Alliance; Greens/EFA; French: Le Groupe Verts/Alliance libre européenne; Les Verts/ALE, German Fraktion der Grünen/Freie Europäische Allianz) is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament. ...

The ICV forms part of the tripartite coalition (along with the Catalan Socialist Party - PSC and the ERC, a left-wing Catalan Nationalist Party). The coalition has governed Catalonia since the 2004 General Election. ICV was given responsibility for the Ministry of the Environment in the share-out of power in the new government. However, ICV has already angered many of its voters by failing to scrap the outgoing administration's plans to build the Bracons tunnel through an area of outstanding nature beauty. The latest scandal to damage ICV's "green" credentials involves a scheme to build a massive incinerator 1 in the village of Sant Pere de Torelló. Some 90,000 metric tonnes of unsorted industrial waste would be burnt at the plant, giving rise to high dioxin and furane emissions. The village mayor's financial and political interests in the scheme and his close links with the ICV-run Ministry of the Environment (responsible for deciding if the plant should go ahead in the teeth of local opposition) have further dented the Party's credibility, threatening to widen existing rifts in the coalition government. The party has also alienated itself from voters by supporting the routing of Spain's AVE (high-speed train) through Barcelona's 19th city centre, despite a feasible alternative coastal route that would have a much lower environmental and urban impact. ICV's support for Catalonia's new but highly conservative energy plan also casts doubt on the party's avowed commitment to alternative energies and sustainable development. AVE train set for Madrid-Sevilla AVE, an acronym for Alta Velocidad Española (literally, Spanish High Speed but ave also meaning bird in Spanish) is a high speed train that can achieve speeds of up to 300 km/h on dedicated track. ...

Ideology

Iniciativa per Catalunya calls itself an "ecosocialist" party and their members are therefore, the "ecosocialists". This ideology is summarized in the book "The ecosocialist manifesto" (Spanish edition ISBN 84-87567-34-7), co-written by a number of left-wing green politicians. This ideology looks to renew the left and is firmly against communism as practised in the former Soviet Union and against capitalism, as practised by Thatcher and Reagan, but also against social democracy, which is only a lesser evil, but does not respond to the environmental and social challenges ahead. From the ecosocialist point of view, both communism and capitalism are two faces of the productivism "mode of production" (a marxist term), which should be phased out if our planet is to survive. According to this book, this ideology is also deeply feminist and pro "freedom of the European peoples" (i.e. pro self-determination for the Basque country and Corsica).

See also: List of political parties in Catalonia Political parties in Catalonia (Spain) (2003) Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya Esquerra Unida i Alternativa Iniciativa per Catalunya Partido Popular, former Alianza Popular Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya - Partido Socialista Obrero Español Convergència i Unió Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya Unió Democràtica de Catalunya See also: List...

External link

• Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds web site (in Catalan)
• table of the electoral results of the ICV (in Catalan)
• Raül Romeva