Causa Galiza | |
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Founded | 2012 |
Merger of | Organizaçom para a Liberaçom Nacional and independents |
Headquarters | Santiago de Compostela |
Union affiliation | Confederación Intersindical Galega |
Ideology | Galician independence Socialism |
Political position | Left-wing |
Website | |
causagaliza.org | |
Causa Galiza (Cause Galiza or Galician Cause) is a Galician left-wing Galician pro-independence political party. It was formed in 2012 [1] and became a political party in March 2014. In the 2014 European elections, it advised abstaining or voting for the Galician Nationalist Bloc. [2]
The party considers independence its main objective. [3] [4] It also supports socialism, feminism and the autonomy of the social movements. [5] [6]
On 31 October 2015, nine members of Causa Galiza were arrested under suspicion of membership in Resistência Galega and of glorifying terrorism. [7] The group's activities were prohibited by the Audiencia Nacional [8] until December 2016. [9]
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