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Marea de Vigo

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Leader
  
Rubén Pérez Correa

National affiliation
  
SON

Founded
  
2015 (2015)

City council of Vigo
  
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Marea de Vigo

Merged into
  
Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood United Left Independents

Ideology
  
Participative democracy Left-wing politics

Marea de Vigo (Tide of Vigo in Galician language) is a citizen movement and political alliance set up in the city of Vigo that runs a left-wing "popular unity" candidacy to the municipal elections of May 2015.

Rubén Pérez Correa, a member of the United Left (EU) was elected as the candidate. The candidacy is supported by EU, Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood, independents and some members of Podemos. It's one of the many "popular unity" candidacies formed by left-wing political parties in Galicia and Spain to the Spanish local elections, 2015; like Marea Atlántica, Ahora Madrid, Barcelona en Comú, Zaragoza en Común or Málaga Ahora.

Marea de Vigo was the 3rd most voted list in the Vigo local elections of 2015 (16,227 votes, 11.5%), gaining 3 seats in the city council.

Elected councillors

  • Rubén Pérez Correa: member of United Left and local coordinator of the party.
  • Margarida López Barreiro: worker of the Galician Public Healthcare Service, unionist and feminist activist and member of Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood. She also participates in the Global March of Women and in the Galician Platform for Abortion Rights.
  • Xosé Lois Jácome Enríquez Chili: local coordinator of Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood, union representative, and member of the Galician People's Front.

    • References

    Marea de Vigo Wikipedia
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