Unity of the People

Unity of the People Unidad del Pueblo
Founded	1998
Ideology	Canarian nationalism Socialism Canarian independence Euroscepticism Pacifism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Ahora Repúblicas
Regional affiliation	Ahora Canarias[1]
Website
unidaddelpueblo.info
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Unidad del Pueblo (English: Unity of the People;^[2] UP) is a Canary Islands left-wing nationalist party.

Objectives

UP seeks independence for the Canary Islands and building a socialist society. The party defends a leading paper of the working class in the process of achieving its goals.

History

UP was formed by former members of other left-wing Canarian nationalist political parties. Unidad del Pueblo supported Alternativa Popular Canaria (APC) from 2002 to 2005, when political differences between the two organizations arise. UP gained a town councillor in the 1999 and 2003 local elections in Santa Lucía de Tirajana.^[3]

Since 2007 UP began to present lists in all the elections held in the Canary Islands. The party achieved 1400 votes in the regional elections of that year and 1800 in the municipal ones, losing the only councilman the party had. In 2009 it was one of the parties supporting the candidacy Iniciativa Internacionalista in the European elections. In the European elections of 2014 UP supported the coalition The Peoples Decide.^[4] In the local elections of 2015 the party run in coalition with United Canarian Left, Republican Alternative and The Greens, gaining one town councillor (Antonio Ordoñez Sánchez) in Santa Lucía de Tirajana.^[5]

References

1. EFE (2019). Nace Ahora Canarias "para conseguir la liberación del pueblo canario". La Provincia.
2. Can also be translated as People's Unity.
3. http://elecciones.lainformacion.com/municipales/1999/canarias/las-palmas/santa-lucia-de-tirajana.html ^{[dead link‍]}
4. "ANC y UP participaran en la candidatura Los Pueblos Deciden en las elecciones al parlamento europeo". Archived from the original on 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
5. Coorporación Municipal de Santa Lucía de Tirajana.

External links

• Website of the UP