With the European Parliament elections simply across the nook, one of many events that has began to draw consideration is CEUS. This formation, comparatively new on the European political scene, is introduced instead within the electoral situation on June 9. However what occasion does CEUS characterize and what’s its proposal for European residents?
Coalition for Solidarity Europe (CEUS)
For years, Basque, Catalan and Galician nationalist events have maintained a robust alliance in European Parliament elections. This collaboration dates again to 2004, when the Galeusca-Peoples of Europe coalition emerged. Within the 2014 European elections, this alliance was consolidated below the identify of Coalition for Europe, led by the Basque Nationalist Occasion, Convergència i Unió (federation shaped by Convergència and Unió Democràtica de Catalunya) and Compromiso por Galicia, in collaboration with different events. peripheral nationalists such because the Canarian Coalition.
Due to this fact, CEUS arises with the aim of collaborating within the elections to the European Parliament in each 2019 and 2024 in Spain. It stands because the continuation of the Coalition for Europe, which competed within the 2014 and 2009 elections.
Structure of the candidacy
On March 15, 2018, the Canarian Coalition (CC-PNC) and the Basque Nationalist Occasion (PNV) introduced their intention to resume their electoral alliance for the 2019 European elections.
On this manner, on January 15, 2019, David Bonvehí, president of the Catalan European Democratic Occasion (PDeCAT), additionally confirmed a coalition settlement with the PNV and proposed Jordi Turull as a doable head of the listing, which generated disagreement with CC as a result of pro-independence positions of the PDeCAT. The ultimate break between the PNV and the PDeCAT occurred after the announcement of Carles Puigdemont’s candidacy for the European Parliament.
Concurrently, on March 14, 2019, Compromiso por Galicia (CxG) determined to resume its coalition with the PNV. And, on March 28, El Pi-Proposta per les Illes (El Pi) joined the candidacy, adopted by Atarrabia Taldea (AT) on April 6 and Demòcrates Valencians (DV) on April 7. Items per Avançar, though not formally built-in, created a platform of help for the coalition.
On Could 6, 2019, the candidacy was formally introduced below the identify Coalition for a Europe of Solidarity (CEUS) in Bilbao, with the participation of representatives of all of the coalition forces: PNV, CC-PNC, CxG, GBai, El Pi and DV.
On this event, dealing with the European elections on June 9, 2024, the Coalition for a Europe of Solidarity (CEUS) is shaped by The PNV and the Canarian Coalition, an alliance with which they obtained a MEP within the 2019 elections and that It consists of three different events: El Pi-Proposta per les Illes Balears, Geroa Socialverdes de Navarra and the Atarrabia Group.
CEUS has appointed Oihane Agirregoitia Martínez as head of the listing for stated electoral elections. She is a Spanish politician born in Bilbao in 1980 who has performed important roles in public administration, notably as normal director of Good Authorities, Citizen Providers and Digital Providers of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia.
CEUS: results of the 2019 European Parliament elections
The Coalition for a Europe of Solidarity was positioned because the eighth candidate when it comes to variety of votes in the course of the 2019 European elections. The coalition managed to acquire a complete of 633,090 votes, which represented 2.82% of the whole and gave them a seat within the European Parliament.
Under is the breakdown of votes by territory:
- Andalusia: 3,199 votes (0.08%)
- Aragon: 252 votes (0.04%)
- Asturias: 434 votes (0.08%)
- Canary Islands: 184,936 votes (20.75%)
- Cantabria: 773 votes (0.25%)
- Castilla-La Mancha: 791 votes (0.07%)
- Castilla y León: 1,454 votes (0.11%)
- Catalonia: 3,546 votes (0.10%)
- Ceuta: 98 votes (0.30%)
- Valencian Group: 2,836 votes (0.12%)
- Extremadura: 1,137 votes (0.19%)
- Galicia: 6,524 votes (0.45%)
- Balearic Islands: 15,957 votes (3.81%)
- La Rioja: 605 votes (0.38%)
- Madrid: 3,523 votes (0.11%)
- Melilla: 13 votes (0.04%)
- Murcia: 648 votes (0.10%)
- Navarra: 27,146 votes (8.00%)
- Basque Nation: 379,393 votes (33.89%)
- Spain (Complete): 633,090 votes (2.82%)
