Communist Party of Andalusia

Communist Party of Andalusia Partido Comunista de Andalucía
General Secretary	José Manuel Mariscal
Founded	1979
Ideology	Communism
National affiliation	Communist Party of Spain
Regional affiliation	Izquierda Unida Los Verdes - Convocatoría por Andalucía

Communist Party of Andalusia (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de Andalucía) is the federation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in Andalusia.

History

PCA was founded in 1979, as the Andalusian branch of PCE was converted into a regional party.^[1][2] The party supported autonomy for Andalusia, and called for a 'yes'-vote in the 1980 referendum on autonomy.^[3][4] During this phase it worked in cooperation with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party at the municipal level. At the time, Fernando Soto was the general secretary of PCA.^[4]

PCA contested the 1982 Spanish parliamentary election, obtaining 211,456 votes (6.19% of the votes in Andalusia). The party was able to elect one parliamentarian to the Congress of Deputies, from the electoral district of Seville.^[5][6]

In the 1983 municipal elections, at a time when the influence of PCE was decreased across Spain, the Andalusian communists were able to win a decisive victory (57.4%) in the city of Córdoba.^[7] This was the sole provincial capital in which the PCE won the post of mayor in these elections. The electoral victory was largely due to the charismatic leadership of the mayoral candidate, Julio Anguita. The fourth congress of PCA, held in January 1984, decided to launch the coalition Convocatoria por Andalucía. Convocatoria por Andalucía would become a model for the state-wide United Left (IU) which contested the 1986 municipal elections.^[8][7][9]

Leadership and organization

PCA is led by a Central Committee.^[10]

The tenth congress of PCA, held in Matalascañas March 20-21, 2010 elected José Manuel Mariscal as the new general secretary of PCA, replacing José Luis Centella (who had been elected as the general secretary of PCE in November 2009). Juan de Dios Villanueva was elected as vice general secretary.^[10][11]

References

Communist Party of Spain

Spanish Civil War Popular Front

PCE federations PSUC- UJCE Mundo Obrero - CC.OO. United Left European Left

Dolores Ibárruri Enrique Líster Santiago Carrillo Julio Anguita Francisco Frutos

Politics of Spain Political parties in Spain Elections in Spain

Communism Eurocommunism World Communist Movement

1. ^ Menéndez Gijón, Manuel Ángel, and Ignacio Fontes. Quién es quién: sus señorías los diputados : atlas de la democracia parlmentaria española. Foca investigación, 21. Madrid: Foca, 2002. p. 71
2. ^ Chaffee, Lyman G. Political protest and street art: popular tools for democratization in Hispanic countries. Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1993. p. 45
3. ^ Mellado Morales, Juan de Dios, and Antonio Ramos Espejo. Memoria de la transición democrática en Córdoba. Crónica de un sueño (1973 - 83) : memoria de la transición democrática en Andalucía / ed. Juan de Dios Mellado Morales. Dir. Antonio Ramos Espejo, 5. Granada: C&T Editores, 2005. p. 100
4. ^ ^{a b} Checa Godoy, Antonio, Carmen Espejo Cala, and María José Ruiz Acosta. ABC de Sevilla, un diario y una ciudad: análisis de un modelo de periodismo local. Ciencias de la comunicación, 5. Sevilla: Secretriado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2007. p. 154
5. ^ Elecciones Congreso de los Diputados Octubre 1982 - Autonomía: ANDALUCIA
6. ^ Elecciones Congreso de los Diputados Octubre 1982 -Provincia: SEVILLA
7. ^ ^{a b} Le Communisme FranÇais Et Ses MunicipalitÉs, Communisme, no 22-23. p. 81
8. ^ Le Communisme en Europe occidentale. Communisme, no 17, 1988. Paris: L'Age d'Homme, 1988. p. 84
9. ^ Menéndez Gijón, Manuel Ángel, and Ignacio Fontes. Quién es quién: sus señorías los diputados : atlas de la democracia parlmentaria española. Foca investigación, 21. Madrid: Foca, 2002. p. 344
10. ^ ^{a b} Mariscal releva a Centella como nuevo secretario general del PCA con más del 82% de los votos
11. ^ José Luis Centella, nuevo secretario general del PCE

External links

• PCA website