Ahora Repúblicas

Republics Now Ahora Repúblicas (Spanish) Ara Repúbliques (Catalan) Orain Errepublikak (Basque) Agora Repúblicas (Galician) Agora Republicas (Aragonese) Agora Repúbliques (Asturian) Ara Republicas (Occitan)
Leader	Oriol Junqueras (2019-2020) Diana Riba (2020-present)
Founded	3 April 2019
Merger of	The Left for the Right to Decide The Peoples Decide
Ideology	Secessionism Souverainism Republicanism Regionalism Social democracy Democratic socialism Left-wing nationalism
Political position	Centre-left to left-wing
European Parliament group	G/EFA (ERC and BNG) The Left (EH Bildu)
Members	See list of members
European Parliament	3 / 61
Website
ahorarepublicas.eu
Politics of Spain Political parties Elections

Republics Now^[1][2] (Spanish: Ahora Repúblicas, Catalan: Ara Repúbliques, Basque: Orain Errepublikak, Galician: Agora Repúblicas, Aragonese: Agora Republicas,^[3][4] Asturian: Agora Repúbliques,^[5][4] Occitan: Ara Republicas) is an electoral alliance formed for the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain by Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Basque Country Gather (EH Bildu) and Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) and with Oriol Junqueras as its leading candidate.^[6] The second list candidate was Diana Riba (wife of Raül Romeva, also imprisoned). The following candidates on the list were shared between EH Bildu, BNG and ERC.^[7] Moreover, Andecha Astur, Puyalón de Cuchas, Canarian Nationalist Alternative, National Congress of the Canaries and Unity of the People also participated in the candidature.^[8][9][10] It is a successor to The Left for the Right to Decide and The Peoples Decide coalitions in the 2014 election. ERC said that the alliance is open to other "Souverainist, republican and progressive forces".^[11]

Composition

2019 election

Party		Scope
	Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	Catalan Countries
	Basque Country Gather (EH Bildu)	Basque Country
	Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG)	Galicia
	Andecha Astur (AA)	Asturias
	Puyalón de Cuchas (Puyalón)	Aragon
	Unity of the People (UP)	Canary Islands
	Canarian Nationalist Alternative (ANC)	Canary Islands
	Ahora Canarias (AC)	Canary Islands

2024 election

Party		Scope
	Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)	Catalan Countries
	Basque Country Gather (EH Bildu)	Basque Country
	Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG)	Galicia
	Now More (Ara Més)	Balearic Islands

Electoral performance

European Parliament

European Parliament
Election	Leading candidate	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	EP Group
2019	Oriol Junqueras	1,252,139	5.58 (#6)	3 / 59	New	Greens/EFA / The Left
2024	Diana Riba	856,500	4.91 (#4)	3 / 61	0

References

1. "EFA's campaign for a Europe of ALL peoples to be launched in Brussels". European Free Alliance. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
2. "EFA parties win 12 seats at European Parliament elections". European Free Alliance. 27 May 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
3. Ahora Repúblicas un “voto de ilusión” para “llevar la voz del Aragón rebelde a Madrid y a Europa”. AraInfo. Diario libre d'Aragón. Iker González Izagirre. 6 April 2019
4. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 30 April 2019
5. Agora Repúbliques se presenta en Asturies de la mano de Andecha Astur. www.infoasturies.com
6. Puente, Arturo (15 January 2019). "Ahora Repúblicas, la marca de la candidatura de Junqueras con Bildu y BNG para las europeas". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2019.
7. Camps, C. (2019). Ara Repúbliques, la marca d'ERC, Bildu i el BNG a les europees. El Nacional.
8. "Andecha Astur anuncia en su Conceyu Nacional que participará en las elecciones europeas con la coalición "Agora Repúbliques"". InfoAsturies (in Spanish). 29 January 2019.
9. "Puyalón de Cuchas participará en las europeas en la coalición "Agora Republicas"". AraInfo (in Spanish). 6 February 2019.
10. "Una coalición independentista canaria se presentará a las elecciones autonómicas". El Confidencial Autonómico (in Spanish). 29 January 2019.
11. Diana Riba, dona de Romeva, serà número dos d’ERC per a les eleccions europees. El Punt-Avui, 15/12/2018.