Republican Front (Catalonia)

Republican Front (Catalan: Front Republicà) was a Catalan left-wing and republicanist electoral alliance formed for the April 2019 Spanish general election by Free People (Catalan: Poble Lliure), We Are Alternative (Catalan: Som Alternativa) and Pirates of Catalonia and the support of La Forja.[1][2]

Republican Front
Front Republicà
Founded14 March 2019
Dissolved15 May 2019
IdeologyCatalan independence
Republicanism
Socialism (factions)
Political positionLeft-wing
Website
www.front-republica.cat

History

The coalition was presented on March 15, 2019 at the headquarters of the "Escarré International Center for Ethnic and National Minorities" (CIEMEN) and included Free People, We Are Alternative and Pirates of Catalonia. It was presented in the 2019 Spanish general election and was led by Albano Dante Fachin, Maribel Rodríguez, Guillem Fuster, Mireia Caldés and Roger Español.

The coalition fielded candidates in all four Catalan constituencies in the election. It won 113,807 votes, 2.8% of the total vote in Catalonia, placing eighth overall. However, the coalition fell below the 3% electoral threshold in all but one constituency (Girona), and failed to elect any deputies.[3]

On May 15, 2019 the three constituent parties of the Republican Front decided to dissolve the coalition.[4] Poble Lliure and the Pirates have both endorsed the candidacy of Popular Unity Candidacy (Catalan: Candidatura d'Unitat Popular, CUP) for the November 2019 election.[5][6]

Composition
Party
Free People (PL–PPCC)
We Are Alternative (Som Alternativa)
Pirates of Catalonia (Pirata.cat)

Electoral results

Cortes Generales
Cortes Generales
Election Congress Senate Status
Vote  % Score  %[lower-alpha 1] Score Seats +/– Seats +/–
2019 113,807 0.43 13th 2.74 8th
0 / 48
 —
0 / 16
 — None
  1. In Catalonia.

References
  1. "Poble Lliure y Fachin llegan a un acuerdo para las elecciones generales". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 14 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  2. "Fachín presenta Front Republicà, su candidatura al Congreso con Poble Lliure". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. "Consulta de resultados electorales. Ministerio del Interior". www.infoelectoral.mir.es. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  4. "Poble Lliure, Pirates i Alternativa anuncien el final del Front Republicà". VilaWeb (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  5. Pirates de Catalunya (2019-09-28). "Pirates de Catalunya aprova anar en coalició amb la CUP a les eleccions generals del 10N". Pirates de Catalunya (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-10-09.
  6. Poble Lliure (2019-10-07). "COMUNICAT: Amb la @cupnacional, cap a la República Catalana: Autodeterminació, Amnistia, Ruptura Democràtica!". @Poble_Lliure (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-10-09.


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