Canarian Nationalist Party

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Canarian Nationalist Party
Partido Nacionalista Canario
Leader Juan Manuel García Ramos
Founded30 January 1924
Refounded in 1982
HeadquartersC/. Bernabé Rodríguez 13, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ideology Canarian nationalism
Political position Centre
National affiliation Agreement of Nationalist Unity (2006-2023)
ColoursWhite, blue, yellow and green
Canarian Parliament
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Congress of Deputies (Canarian seats)
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Spanish Senate (Canarian seats)
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Party flag
MPAIAC.svg
Website
pnc-canarias.eu
The Cuban PNC adopted the 1907 "Ateneo Flag", which was the first Canarian nationalist flag. Bandera Ateneo.svg
The Cuban PNC adopted the 1907 "Ateneo Flag", which was the first Canarian nationalist flag.

The Nationalist Canary Party (Spanish : Partido Nacionalista Canario, PNC) is a nationalist political party in the Canary Islands. [1] Its current headquarters are in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife.

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Precedents

The first PNC (CNP) was founded in Havana, Cuba on 30 January 1924, by Jose G. Cabrera Díaz, a Canarian journalist who became president of the party. He had been a trade union leader of Canary workers. On 5 August 1900, they had founded the Working Canary Association. In the 1920s, Díaz left his working-class roots to defend the interests of the middle class. Though the Cuban PNC proclaimed itself as inheritor of Secundino Delgado's thought, the party ideology was far away from the near to anarchism ideas of national and social liberation by Delgado.

The newspaper El Guanche, founded in 1897, was a primary supporter of the party. The party adopted as Canary flag[ clarification needed ], the "Flag of the Ateneo" (also called "Secundino's Flag"), that is to say, with seven white stars on a blue background arranged to match the position of the country's various islands.

History

In 1982, the newly created PNC held its first congress in the Canary Islands. The party adopted as symbols the 1970s MPAIAC flag, apart from the "Ateneo Flag", as well as some of the Cuban PNC political positions.

In 1993, the party merged with others to form Canarian Coalition (CC), but left the group in 1998. In 2003, after tensions between the militants and the direction, a splinter group formed another "Partido Nacionalista Canario", known as PaNaCa, which accused PNC of betraying its nationalist reivindications. [2] Finally, PaNaCa joined CC.

Electoral performance

Parliament of the Canary Islands

ElectionIsland constituenciesRegional constituencySeats+/–Government
Votes %Votes %
1991 7,8451.1 (#6)
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1995 Within CC
1 / 60
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1Coalition
1999 Within FNC
0 / 60
Red Arrow Down.svg 1Extra-parliamentary
2003 Within FNC
0 / 60
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0Extra-parliamentary
2007 Within CCa–PNC
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Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0Extra-parliamentary
2011 Within CCa–PNC
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Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0Extra-parliamentary
2015 Within CCa–PNC
1 / 60
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1Coalition
2019 Within CCa–PNC
1 / 70
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0Opposition
2023 2,4720.3 (#14)2,3170.3 (#13)
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Red Arrow Down.svg 1Extra-parliamentary

Cortes Generales

From 2006 to 2023, the PNC participated in the Agreement of Nationalist Unity alliance with the Canarian Coalition. As part of the alliance, the party contested elections to the parliament of Spain, the Cortes Generales. The alliance was dissolved in 2023 and did not contest that year's election, with the PNC arguing that the CC had now "nothing of nationalism". The following results are for the coalition as a whole, not solely the PNC.

Election Canary Islands delegation to the Cortes Generales
CongressSenate
Vote %ScoreSeats+/–Seats+/–
2008 174,62917.49%3rd
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1 / 11
Red Arrow Down.svg 2 [lower-alpha 1]
2011 143,88115.47%3rd
2 / 15
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1 / 11
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2015 81,9178.24%5th
1 / 15
Red Arrow Down.svg 1
1 / 11
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2016 78,2537.99%5th
1 / 15
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
1 / 11
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
2019 (Apr) 137,66412.97%5th
2 / 15
Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1
0 / 11
Red Arrow Down.svg 1
2019 (Nov) 123,98113.12%4th
2 / 15
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
0 / 11
Arrow Blue Right 001.svg 0
  1. 1 2 Compared to Canarian Coalition totals in the 2004 general election.

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References

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  2. Ruel, Teresa (2020-09-30). Political Alternation in the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands. Springer Nature. p. 84. ISBN   978-3-030-53840-8.