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Initiative for Catalonia Greens

Political party in Spain

Summary

Political party in Spain

FieldValue
countryCatalonia
native_nameIniciativa per Catalunya Verds
colorcode
logoICV logo.svg
presidentDolors Camats and Joan Herrera (national coordinators)
foundation
dissolution
successorGreen Left
ideology{{ublclass = nowrap
Eco-socialism<ref name"PEE"
Regionalism<ref name"PEE"/
positionLeft-wing
headquartersC/ Ciutat, 7
08002 Barcelona
coloursGreen, Red
youth_wingJoves d'Esquerra Verda
regionalICV–EUiA (2003–2015)
Catalunya Sí que es Pot (2015–2017)
En Comú Podem (2015–2019)
Catalunya en Comú (2017–2019)
europeanEuropean Green Party
internationalGlobal Greens
website

| Eco-socialism | Regionalism 08002 Barcelona Catalunya Sí que es Pot (2015–2017) En Comú Podem (2015–2019) Catalunya en Comú (2017–2019)

Initiative for Catalonia Greens (, ICV; ) was an eco-socialist political party in Catalonia. It was formed as a merger of Iniciativa per Catalunya and Els Verds. IC had been an alliance led by Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya and was the equivalent of Izquierda Unida in Catalonia. IC later developed into a political party, and PSUC was dissolved. The youth of ICV was called Joves d'Esquerra Verda (Green Left Youth). It used to be called JambI, Joves amb Iniciativa (Youth with Initiative).

In the elections to the European Parliament in 2004 ICV ran on the Izquierda Unida list. One MEP, Raül Romeva, was elected from ICV which joined the Green Group. The ICV formed part of the past ruling tripartite coalition (along with the Socialist Party of Catalonia and the Republican Left of Catalonia, a left-wing Catalan Nationalist Party) in the Generalitat of Catalonia. The coalition governed Catalonia from 2004-2010. ICV was given responsibility for the Ministry of the Environment in the share-out of power in the new government. Initiative for Catalonia Greens had an agreement of mutual association with Equo. It was dissolved in 2019. In July 2020 it was announced that the party would be re-founded as Green Left.

Ideology

Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds called itself an "ecosocialist" party and its members were therefore "ecosocialists". This ideology is summarized in the book The Ecosocialist Manifesto, co-written by a number of left-wing green politicians. This ideology looks to renew the left and is firmly against communism as practised in the former Soviet Union and against capitalism, as practised by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, but also against social democracy, which it considers as only a lesser evil that does not respond to the environmental and social challenges ahead. From an ecosocialist point of view, both communism and capitalism are two faces of the productivist "mode of production" (a Marxist term), which should be phased out if the ecological health of the planet is to survive. The manifesto also considers this ideology to be deeply feminist and in favour of the "freedom of the European peoples" (i.e. for self-determination for the Basque Country, Galicia or Catalonia). The party voted in favour of the Catalan parliament's declaration defining Catalonia as a "sovereign political and juridical entity" ("subjecte polític i jurídic sobirà") in 2013.

Presidents

  1. Rafael Ribó i Massó (1987–2000)
  2. Joan Saura (2000–present)

Electoral results

Spanish Parliament

Congress of Deputies

Election year# of overall votes% of overall vote# of overall seats won±Notes2000200420082011
119,2900.5
234,7900.91
183,3380.71
280,1521.22

Catalan Parliament

Election year# of overall votes% of overall vote# of overall seats won±Notes19881992199519992003200620102012
209,2117.7 (#3)
171,7946.5 (#4)2
313,0929.7 (#5)4
78,4412.5 (#5)8
241,1637.2 (#5)6
282,6939.5 (#5)3
229,9857.4 (#4)2
358,8579.9 (#5)3

European Parliament

Election year# of overall votes% of overall vote# of overall seats won±Notes20092014
119,7556.1 (#5)Part of a joint list with United Left
258,55410.3 (#4)Part of a joint list with United Left

Notes

References

References

  1. Nordsieck, Wolfram. (2017). "Catalonia/Spain".
  2. "EQUO - ICV Agreement of Association and Protocol of Relations".
  3. D. C. S.. (6 July 2019). "ICV anuncia su disolución "cuando se cierre el concurso" de acreedores". El País.
  4. (2 July 2020). "ICV se refundará en un nuevo partido bautizado como Esquerra Verda". La Vanguardia.
  5. (3 July 2020). "El nuevo partido Esquerra Verda recuperará el legado de la extinta Iniciativa per Catalunya". El País.
  6. C. Antunes, P. Juquin, P. Kemp, I. Stengers, W. Telkamper & F. Otto Wolf. (1993), ''Manifiesto ecosocialista''. Los Libros De La Catarata. (Spanish edition {{ISBN. 84-87567-34-7)
  7. (23 January 2013). "El Parlament de Catalunya aprova la declaració de sobirania de CiU i ERC". La Vanguardia en català.
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