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Proposta per les Illes

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President
  
Jaume Font

2nd Vice President
  
Fèlix Ripoll

1st Vice President
  
Josep Melià

3rd Vice President
  
Xicu Torres


Founded
  
November 2, 2012 (2012-11-02)

Headquarters
  
Carrer Aragó núm. 22 entresòl B, Palma

El PI – Proposta per les Illes (Catalan for "PI – Proposal for the Isles"; pi can also mean pine or pi in Catalan) is a liberal Balearic autonomist political party, formed in November 2012 from the merger of several nationalist and regionalist parties: Convergència per les Illes (the successor of the Majorcan Union), the Lliga Regionalista de les Illes Balears, the Unió Menorquina and Es Nou Partit. The party's two main leaders are Jaume Font (erstwhile leader of the Lliga Regionalista) and Josep Melià (erstwhile leader of Convergència). As the merger of parties from Majorca, Minorca and Ibiza, PI will have elected representatives on each of these three islands, including 6 mayors and 82 councillors in 34 municipalities.

PI claims to seek political dialogue and moderation, rejecting what it considers dogmatism and political posturing, while defining its own values as centrist and autonomist. While defending the Spanish Constitution and the Balearic Islands' Statute of Autonomy, the party also aims to promote the language, culture and traditions of the islands as well as its natural resources. PI defines itself as "socially and politically a big tent, balearista political formation with a tendency to centrism".

While accepting the need to eventually reduce the deficits in public spending, PI has issued a statement critical of the Balearic government's announced intention to raise new taxes.

The party's regionalist and nationalist roots, and its continued emphasis on promoting Balearic autonomy and the Catalan language as the "unforsakeable badge of identity of our community", place it within the ambit of moderate Catalan nationalism in the Balearic Islands.

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