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Popular Unity (Spain)

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Abbreviation
  
IU–UPeC

Founded
  
22 October 2015

Succeeded by
  
Unidos Podemos

Candidate
  
Alberto Garzón

Dissolved
  
9 May 2016

Popular Unity (Spain)

Merger of
  
IU CHA Batzarre CLIAS IzCa IAS ETSSPC Segoviemos

Popular Unity (Spanish: Unidad Popular), also known as Popular Unity in Common (Spanish: Unidad Popular en Común) and briefly as Now in Common–Popular Unity (Spanish: Ahora en Común–Unidad Popular), was a political and electoral alliance in Spain. The alliance was organized in 2015 to contest the 2015 general election and integrates the United Left. It was founded as Now in Common (Spanish: Ahora en Común). Alberto Garzón was its lead candidate. In the 2015 election, it won two seats in the 350 seat Congress of Deputies.

Parties

  • United Left (IU)
  • Aragonese Union (CHA)
  • Assembly (Batzarre)
  • Building the Left-Socialist Alternative (CLIAS)
  • Castilian Left (IzCa)
  • Asturian Left (IAS)
  • Between All Yes We Can Córdoba (Entre Tod@s Sí Se Puede Córdoba)
  • Segoviemos

    • References

    Popular Unity (Spain) Wikipedia
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