Communist Party of Andalusia

Communist Party of Andalusia

Partido Comunista de Andalucía
Communist Party of Andalusia Partido Comunista de Andalucía
President	Antonio Romero Ruiz
General Secretary
Founded	1979
Youth wing	Communist Youth of Andalusia
Ideology	Communism; Republicanism
National affiliation	Communist Party of Spain
Regional affiliation	United Left/The Greens - Assembly for Andalusia
Parliament of Andalusia	5 / 109
Congress of Deputies	1 / 350 (within Unidas Podemos)
Website
	pcandalucia.org
	Politics of Spain; Political parties; Elections;

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 statewide 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 (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]

The twelfth congress of PCA, held in Albolote July 2, 2017 elected as the new general secretary of PCA, replacing .^[12]

Name	Period	Notes
[es]	1977-1981
Felipe Alcaraz	1981–2002
	2002-2010
	2010–2017
	2017–present

References[]

^ 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
^ Chaffee, Lyman G. Political protest and street art: popular tools for democratization in Hispanic countries. Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1993. p. 45
^ 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
^ Jump up to: ^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
^ Elecciones Congreso de los Diputados Octubre 1982 - Autonomía: ANDALUCIA^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Elecciones Congreso de los Diputados Octubre 1982 -Provincia: SEVILLA^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Le Communisme FranÇais Et Ses MunicipalitÉs, Communisme, no 22-23. p. 81
^ Le Communisme en Europe occidentale. Communisme, no 17, 1988. Paris: L'Age d'Homme, 1988. p. 84
^ 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
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Mariscal releva a Centella como nuevo secretario general del PCA con más del 82% de los votos Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
^ José Luis Centella, nuevo secretario general del PCE
^ Ernesto Alba, nuevo secretario general del PCA

External links[]

PCA website

[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

[p2-4] Jump up to: ^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^{[permanent dead link]}

[6] Elecciones Congreso de los Diputados Octubre 1982 -Provincia: SEVILLA^{[permanent dead link]}

[fr2-7] Jump up to: ^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

[xcong-10] Jump up to: ^a ^b Mariscal releva a Centella como nuevo secretario general del PCA con más del 82% de los votos Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine

[11] José Luis Centella, nuevo secretario general del PCE

[12] Ernesto Alba, nuevo secretario general del PCA

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