Land Party (Spain)

The Land Party (Galician: Partido da Terra, pronounced [paɾˈtiðʊ ðɐ ˈtɛrɐ]) is a Galician political party that was established in 2011.

Land Party
Partido da Terra
Founded25 July 2011
HeadquartersGalicia
NewspaperO Peteiro
IdeologyDirect democracy
Green politics
Ruralism
Reintegrationism
Cooperativism
Horizontalidad
Colours  Blue
  Green
Website
partidodaterra.net

Party platform

The party's platform encompasses eight types of sovereignty:

The party also has an advanced platform regarding peak oil policies and the Oil Depletion Protocol.[2]

History and elections

The party held its founding meeting in Santiago de Compostela on July 25, 2011, Dia Nacional de Galicia ("National Day of Galicia") and was registered by the Spanish Ministry of Interior the same week.

In March 2012 it ran for the Elections to the General Council of the Principality of Asturias, but only in the Western electoral district where the Galician-speaking Eo-Navia region is located, gaining no seats.[3] In October 2012 it contested the Galizan Parliamentary Election obtaining 3,307 votes (0,22%) and ranking as 7th extraparliamentary party (2nd among the votes issued by Galician citizens abroad) out of a total of 26 groups running in the elections. In May 2014 it contested the European Parliament Election receiving 9,940 votes in the whole of Spain, although the highest proportion of votes was obtained in Galicia. In the local elections of 2015 the party gained a councillor in Lousame.

See also

References

  1. "Um partido para os tempos que aí venhem, os do decrescimento", Alexandre Banhos Campo, in http://pglingua.org/opiniom/3810-um-partido-para-os-tempos-que-ai-venhem-os-do-decrescimento; http://www.partidodaterra.net/bases/ Archived 2014-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Peak-Oil Party Platform Runs for Galician Elections", Peak Oil News, in http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/peak-oil-party-platform-runs-for-galician-elections/
  3. "http://partidodaterra.net/eunavia/?lang=pt
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