List of political parties in Spain
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Political parties in Spain lists political parties in Spain.
Spain has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party. Regional parties can be strong in the autonomous comunities like Catalonia and the Basque Country.
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The parties
Major Parties
With current representation in the parliament or in the European Parliament.
- Partido Popular, formerly People's Coalition (Coalición Popular), a coalition of People's Alliance (Alianza Popular), Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano) and Liberal Party (Partido Liberal)
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español), includes:
- Socialists' Party of Catalonia (Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya) in Catalunya
- Socialist Party of the Basque Country (Partido Socialista de Euskadi) in the Basque Country
- United Left (Izquierda Unida)), a coalition of parties around Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España), includes Ezker Batua in the Basque Country
- Initiative for Catalonia Greens (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds), formely in coalition with Izquierda Unida
- Convergence and Unity (Convergència i Unió), coalition of:
- Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya)
- Democratic Union of Catalonia (Unió Democràtica de Catalunya)
- Basque Nationalist Party (Partido Nacionalista Vasco), EAJ in Basque.
- Eusko Alkartasuna, splinter group of Basque Nationalist Party
- Galician Nationalist Bloc (Bloque Nacionalista Galego)
- Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya)
- Aragonese Party (Partido Aragonés)
- Aragonese Council (Chunta Aragonesista)
- Euskal Herritarrok, related to Batasuna (also allegedly related to Herritarren Zerrenda) formerly Herri Batasuna, has been repeatedly made illegal by the Spanish Supreme Court of Justice (Tribunal Supremo).
- Canarian Coalition (Coalición Canaria)
- Andalucista Party (Partido Andalucista)
Parties only in regional parliaments
With current representation in any of the regional parliaments
- Alavese Unity (Unidad Alavesa)
- Aralar
- Valencian Union (Unión Valenciana)
Coalitions
- Europe of the People's (Europa de los Pueblos), coalition at the European elections of ERC, CHA, EA and PSA
- GalEusCa - Pueblos de Europa, coalition at the European elections.
- Nafarroa Bai, coalition of Eusko Alkartasuna, Basque Nationalist Party (EAJ-PNV) and Aralar, only for the constituency of Navarre.
Minor parties
Currently without representation in the parliament
- Alianza para el Desarrollo y la Naturaleza
- Alianza por la Unidad Nacional
- Batzarre
- Bloc Nacionalista Valencià
- Candidatura d'Unitat Popular
- Centro Democrático y Social, former Unión de Centro Democrático
- Tierra Comunera, Castilian nationalist party
- Ciudadanos Agobiados y Cabreados
- Ciudadanos En Blanco
- Coalición Europea
- Coalición Liberal - European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party
- Coalición Galega
- Comunión Tradicionalista
- Democracia Nacional
- Eapaña 2000
- Estat Català
- Falange Auténtica
- Falange Española de las JONS
- Frente Popular Galega
- Herritarren Zerrenda (legal in France, but not in Spain due to links with Batasuna / Herri Batasuna)
- Republican Left) (Izquierda Republicana)
- Izquierda Castellana
- La Falange
- Los Parados
- Los Verdes - Grupo Verde Europeo
- Los Verdes de la Comunidad de Madrid
- Los Verdes Ecopacifistas
- Lucha Internacionalista
- Movimiento Social Republicano
- Nós - Unidade Popular
- Nueva Izquierda Verde
- Otra Democracia Es Posible
- Partido Carlista, see Carlism
- Partido Cannabis
- Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España (PCPE)
- Partido de Acción Socialista (PASOC)
- Partido de los Autónomos Jubilados y Viudas
- Partido del Karma Democrático
- Partido Demócrata Español
- Partido Familia y Vida
- Partido Humanista
- Partido Galeguista
- Partido Mutuo Apoyo Romántico
- Partido Obrero Socialista Internacionalista
- Por un Mundo más Justo
- Por una Europa de los Trabajadores y los Pueblos - No a la Constitucion Europea - coalition of PCPE and LI-LIT.CI
- Salamanca, Zamora, León Prepal
- Tierra Comunera - partido nacionalista Castellano
- Unión Centrista Liberal
- Unificación Comunista de España
- Zornotza Eginez (local)
- Zutik
Defunct Major parties
- Unión de Centro Democrático, refounded as Centro Democrático y Social
- Alianza Popular, refounded as Partido Popular
- Partido Demócrata Cristiano, absorbed into Coalición Popular (Partido Popular)
- Partido Liberal, absorbed into Coalición Popular (Partido Popular)
- Herri Batasuna
- Batasuna
- Euskadiko Ezkerra, absorbed into Partido Socialista de Euskadi
- Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas the leading right-wing party of the Second Spanish Republic
- Partido Reformista Democrático
See also
- Index of political parties to browse parties by name
- List of political parties to browse parties by country
- List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
- Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals
- List of political parties in Catalonia
- Liberalism and radicalism in Spain