Catalan Alliance

Catalan Alliance
Aliança Catalana
LeaderSílvia Orriols
Founded28 October 2020 (2020-10-28)
Split fromNational Front of Catalonia
HeadquartersC/ Sant Jaume 5, Ripoll
IdeologyCatalan independence[A]
Hispanophobia[B]
Right-wing populism[C]
Islamophobia[D]
Nativism[E]
Political positionFar-right[15][16]
Colors  Dark blue
Slogan"Salvem Catalunya"
("Let's save Catalonia")
Parliament of Catalonia
2 / 135
Mayors
2 / 947
Local government
8 / 9,139
County councilors
2 / 1,028
Website
aliancacatalana.cat

Catalan Alliance (Catalan: Aliança Catalana) is a far-right[F] political party in Catalonia. It is a Catalan pro-independence, and ultranationalist party, that also opposes immigration.[18][17] It is currently the governing party of the municipality of Ripoll.[19][15][18] At the 2024 Catalan regional election, the party entered the Parliament of Catalonia for the first time, with two seats.[17]

History

The party was founded in 2020 by Ripoll Councilor Sílvia Orriols, who left the National Front of Catalonia (FNC) due to her opposition to moderating the party's stance on immigration. All FNC members in Ripoll joined Orriols in forming the Catalan Alliance.[20]

In May 2023, the party won the municipal elections in Ripoll, receiving the most votes in the town and obtaining six councilors.[19] On 12 June, the other political forces in the municipality of Ripoll tried to make a pact to prevent Catalan Alliance from governing the municipality,[21] but Together for Catalonia (Junts) ultimately did not participate in the agreement and Orriols was invested as mayor on 17 June 2023.[22]

In the other two municipalities where the party ran, they obtained two more councilors, one in Manlleu and another in Ribera d'Ondara. In the latter municipality, the party's representative, Albert Puig, became mayor in 2024 following a no-confidence motion against the minority government of Francesc Sabanés of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC). Elisabet Jové of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) became the new mayor, but she stepped down shortly after assuming the role due to maternity leave, handing the mayoralty to Puig.[23] Puig will hold the position for four months, until Jové returns from maternity leave, and governs with the support of councilors elected under the ERC banner.[23] After the agreement between Catalan Alliance and the ERC was announced, ERC leadership severed all ties with the Ribera d'Ondara branch of the party.[24]

Catalan Alliance stand at Plaça Molina, Barcelona

On 25 March 2024, Orriols confirmed that Catalan Alliance would be presenting a list for the 2024 Catalan regional election, with Orriols as the lead candidate.[24] Ahead of the elections, PSC, ERC, Junts, Comuns Sumar, and Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) announced that they would not enter into any coalition agreement with Catalan Alliance or Vox.[25] The party would ultimately win two seats in the election, entering the Parliament of Catalonia for the first time as the smallest party.[17] The party would win Ripoll and the surrounding municipalities of Les Llosses, Campdevànol, and Gombrèn, all of which border Ripoll.[26] In Ribera d'Ondara, Catalan Alliance would finish second behind Junts.[27]

Ideology

Catalan Alliance is far-right,[15][16] opposing immigration to Catalonia as well as promoting anti-Muslim rhetoric, with party leader Sílvia Orriols stating that Muslims "do not integrate in our country but rather they attack our rights and freedoms".[28][29] Orriols claims that Islam is incompatible with western values and has called for the closure of mosques and bans on the burqa in public.[30] In relation to the Israel-Gaza war, the party's leader Sílvia Orriols has strongly supported Israel.[31][32]

The party has criticized bilingualism in Catalonia, with prominent member Jordi Aragonès [ca] claiming that immigrants in Catalonia learn Spanish rather than Catalan,[33] and has called to make Spanish language education optional in Catalan schools.[34] At the same time, Catalan Alliance has called for the protection and promotion of the Aranese dialect of the Occitan language in Val d'Aran in its 2024 election platform.[35] In the past, the party has called for "expelling" the Spanish and French states from Catalonia,[33][36] with Orriols repeatedly talking about liberating Catalonia from "the Franco-Spanish yoke".

In economics, Catalan Alliance is liberal-conservative in outlook, calling for slightly lower taxes for the low and medium class, dismantle social benefits and lump payments for migrants, and adopting a pro local Small and Medium Enterprise rhetoric.[37][38] At the same time, the party advocates protectionism for Catalan companies,[33] and wishes for less integration between the Catalan and Spanish economies. The party is also against austerity.

Electoral performance

Parliament of Catalonia

Parliament of Catalonia
Election Leading candidate Votes % Seats +/– Government
2024 Sílvia Orriols 118,302 3.79 (#8)
2 / 135
 2 Opposition

Municipalities

Data Catalonia
Votes % Seats
2023 1,806 0.06

See also

Notes

  1. ^ [1][2]
  2. ^ [3][4][5]
  3. ^ [6][7][8]
  4. ^ [9][10][11]
  5. ^ [12][13][14]
  6. ^ [15][16][17][18]

References

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  3. ^ "El Govern carga contra las "posiciones xenófobas" de Junts en inmigración y las vincula al auge de la ultraderecha secesionista". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2024-01-15. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  4. ^ "Un 'polvorín' que amenaza la "identidad catalana": el mapa de la inmigración que inquieta a Junts". El Español (in Spanish). 2024-01-13. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  5. ^ "¿El regreso de la bicefalia sociovergente?, por Tadeu". THE OBJECTIVE (in Spanish). 2024-05-12. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
  6. ^ Pareja, Pol (2024-05-12). "¿De dónde sale Aliança Catalana? Así es el partido islamófobo e independentista que ha irrumpido en el Parlament". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-15.
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  9. ^ "The day Silvia Orriols was born West Observer". 2024-05-07. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  10. ^ López, Joan (2024-05-11). "Aliança Catalana, el partido ultra que Pedro Sánchez desea que triunfe para frenar a Puigdemont". El Debate (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-05-16.
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  17. ^ a b c d "Far-right pro-independence Aliança Catalana wins parliament seats for first time". www.catalannews.com. 2024-05-12. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  18. ^ a b c Benítez, Óscar (15 February 2022). "Aliança Catalana, la ultraderecha separatista que carga contra la inmigración y el bilingüismo". El Liberal.cat (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  19. ^ a b Lamelas, Marcos (10 June 2023). "Sílvia Orriols, la ultraderecha soberanista en Ripoll que ya estudia dar el salto al Parlament". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  20. ^ "Tots els membres de Ripoll del FNC deixen les sigles del partit". Ripollès Digital (in Catalan). 2024-03-19. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  21. ^ 324cat (2023-06-12). "Junts Ripoll manté el silenci sobre el pacte perquè Aliança Catalana no governi". 3Cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2024-03-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  35. ^ "Aran i l'occità". Orriols 2024 - Aliança Catalana. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
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