Extremaduran Popular Bloc

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Extremaduran Popular Bloc
Bloque Popular de Extremadura
Bloque Populal d'Estremaura
Chairman Collective leadership
Founded1981
Dissolved1983
Merger of Communist Movement
Revolutionary Communist League
Ex-members of the Workers' Party
Unified Communist Party of Spain
Independents
Headquarters Cáceres
Ideology Communism
Extremaduran regionalism
Extremaduran nationalism [1]
Revolutionary socialism
Feminism
Local seats (1981-1983)
37 / 3,547
[2]
Local seats (1983-1987) [3]
17 / 3,550
[4]
Party flag
Bandera Nacionalista Extremadura.svg

Extremaduran Popular Bloc (Spanish: Bloque Popular de Extremadura, BPEx) was a communist political coalition created in Extremadura in 1981 and dissolved in 1983.

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History

BPEx was founded as a coalition of several political parties and movements in Extremadura, mainly the Communist Movement, the Revolutionary Communist League, the ex-members of the Workers' Party and the Unified Communist Party of Spain. The coalition was also supported by many independents of the social movements, like feminists and anti-militarists. Originally, the coalition "inherited" the 37 town councillors of the organizations which composed it.

The 13 of February 1983 the coalition called for a counter-demonstration against a right-wing anti-autonomist (called Bloque Cacereño Anti-Estatuto), being heavily repressed by the Spanish police. [5] [6] [7]

In the local elections of 1983 the BPEx gained 17 town councillors. [8] Shortly after that, the coalition de facto dissolved, although in some towns, like Majadas de Tiétar (where they were governing), the coalition continued to exist as the Extremeñist Revolutionary Bloc. [9]

Ideology

Ideologically they defined themselves as radical left "extremeñists revolutionaries", campaigning for an Statute of Autonomy for Extremadura.

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References

  1. ↑ Ortiz Barquero, P. (2018). Aproximación al nacionalismo extremeño: bases ideológicas y manifestaciones. Almenara: revista extremeña de ciencias sociales, (10), 110-127.
  2. ↑ INFOELECTORAL
  3. ↑ After its dissolution, in late 1983 the town councillors worked under the label "Extremeñist Revolutionary Bloc"
  4. ↑ "INFOELECTORAL INFOELECTORAL". Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  5. ↑ Se constituyó el Bloque Cacereño Anti Estatuto El País. Europa Press, Cáceres, 30 ENE 1983
  6. ↑ Manifestación anti-Estatuto. El País. José Luís Martín Galindo, Cáceres. 23 FEB 1983
  7. ↑ 3.000 personas protestan en Cáceres por el articulado del Estatuto extremeño. El País. Julián Leal, Badajoz, 14 FEB 1983
  8. ↑ "INFOELECTORAL". Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  9. ↑ alcalde de Majadas de Tiétar, del Bloque Extremeñista Revolucionario, convoca una reunión de Colectivos sociales y políticos reclamando la paralización de la central nuclear de Almaraz. El País, Pedro Jara, Cáceres, 13 MAY 1986.
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