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United Residents (in Spanish: Residentes Unidos) is a political party on the island of Ibiza, Spain. The group was formed to safeguard interests of foreign residents. One of the issues the party is raising is multilingualism.

Spanish language Romance language

Spanish or Castilian is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.

A political party is an organized group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government. The party agrees on some proposed policies and programmes, with a view to promoting the collective good or furthering their supporters' interests.

Ibiza Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea

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The president of the party is José María Echániz.

The party was registered on May 29, 2002. A year later it claimed to have 300 members. In the 2003 municipal elections Residentes Unidos got 119 votes in the municipality of Ibiza Town (0.77%, no seat) and 160 votes in Sant Antoni de Portmany (2.09%, no seat).

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