Leader Pilar Zabala Preceded by Unidos Podemos Political position Left-wing | Founded 11 August 2016 Headquarters Basque Country Colors Purple | |
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Elkarrekin Podemos ("Elkarrekin" in Basque: "Together" or "United"; "Podemos" in Spanish: "We Can"; translated to United We Can) is a left-wing electoral alliance in the Basque Country formed by Podemos, Ezker Anitza and Equo in August 2016 ahead of the 2016 Basque regional election.
Background
The coalition is based on the one formed for the 2016 Spanish general election, in which the Unidos Podemos/Elkarrekin Ahal Dugu coalition became the most voted force in the three Basque districts, also winning in number of seats. Given the coalition success, the three parties agreed to re-edit the coalition to contest the Basque election scheduled for September 25, 2016.
On 11 August 2016, the three formations ratified the agreement to go jointly to the polls under the Elkarrekin Podemos name. The chosen name is similar to that used for the general election, but instead of separating the Spanish and Basque denominations with a slash (Unidos Podemos/Elkarrekin Ahal Dugu), they chose to join the two denominations into one using a word of each language as a symbol of the linguistic richness of the Basque Country.
As candidate for lehendakari they chose Pilar Zabala, who had already been chosen by the bases of Podemos/Ahal Dugu in primary elections.