Extremaduran Popular Bloc
Extremaduran Popular Bloc (Spanish: Bloque Popular de Extremadura, BPEx) was a communist political coalition created in Extremadura in 1981 and dissolved in 1983.
Extremaduran Popular Bloc Bloque Popular de Extremadura Bloque Populal d'Estremaura | |
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| Chairman | Collective leadership |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Dissolved | 1983 |
| Merger of | Communist Movement Revolutionary Communist League Ex-members of the Workers' Party Unified Communist Party of Spain Independents |
| Headquarters | Cáceres |
| Ideology | Communism Extremaduran regionalism Extremaduran nationalism[1] Revolutionary socialism Feminism |
| Local seats (1981-1983) | 37 / 3,547 [2] |
| Local seats (1983-1987)[3] | 17 / 3,550 [4] |
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History
BPEx was founded as a coalition of several political parties and movements in Extremadura, mainly the Communist Movement, the Revolutionary Communist League, the ex-members of the Workers' Party and the Unified Communist Party of Spain. The coalition was also supported by many independents of the social movements, like feminists and anti-militarists. Originally, the coalition "inherited" the 37 town councillors of the organizations which composed it.
The 13 of February 1983 the coalition called for a counter-demonstration against a right-wing anti-autonomist (called Bloque Cacereño Anti-Estatuto), being heavily repressed by the Spanish police.[5][6][7]
In the local elections of 1983 the BPEx gained 17 town councillors.[8] Shortly after that, the coalition de facto dissolved, although in some towns, like Majadas de Tiétar (where they were governing), the coalition continued to exist as the Extremeñist Revolutionary Bloc.[9]
Ideology
Ideologically they defined themselves as radical left "extremeñists revolutionaries", campaigning for an Statute of Autonomy for Extremadura.
References
- Ortiz Barquero, P. (2018). Aproximación al nacionalismo extremeño: bases ideológicas y manifestaciones. Almenara: revista extremeña de ciencias sociales, (10), 110-127.
- INFOELECTORAL
- After its dissolution, in late 1983 the town councillors worked under the label "Extremeñist Revolutionary Bloc"
- "INFOELECTORAL INFOELECTORAL". Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
- Se constituyó el Bloque Cacereño Anti Estatuto El País. Europa Press, Cáceres, 30 ENE 1983
- Manifestación anti-Estatuto. El País. José Luís Martín Galindo, Cáceres. 23 FEB 1983
- 3.000 personas protestan en Cáceres por el articulado del Estatuto extremeño. El País. Julián Leal, Badajoz, 14 FEB 1983
- "INFOELECTORAL". Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
- alcalde de Majadas de Tiétar, del Bloque Extremeñista Revolucionario, convoca una reunión de Colectivos sociales y políticos reclamando la paralización de la central nuclear de Almaraz. El País, Pedro Jara, Cáceres, 13 MAY 1986.