Spain face your novenas european elections since it officially entered the European Union in 1985. The Twenty-seven vote to determine the 720 MEPs who will make up the European Parliament.
Since Spain participates in these elections, PSOE and Popular Party They have shared the victories, reaping four wins each. The socialists They were the last to win the European elections in 2019 when they won 20 seats and 32.84% of the votes with the candidacy of Josep Borrell. In 2004 he also won with 43.46% of the votes and 25 seats.
Another of the triumphs of the PSOE was in 1989, with the former Foreign Minister Fernando Morán as a candidate. On that occasion, the socialists won the victory by winning 27 seats and almost 40% of the votes. He also won the first European elections held in the country in 1987.
The popular They also won the elections four times. The last time was in 2014 with the candidacy of Miguel Arias Cañete with 16 seats and 26.09% of the votes. He also achieved victory in 2009 with the candidate Jaime Mayor Oreja, who won 24 seats and 42.12% of the votes. In 1999, the PP candidacy led by Loyola de Palacio also won the elections with 27 deputies and almost 40% of the votes. The greatest victory was in 1994, with the candidacy headed by Abel Matutes, when the PP reached 28 seats and 40.12% of the votes.
What is Now Republics?
As these are the only single constituency elections at the state level, the pro-independence and nationalist formations have to seek alliances to compete together. Therefore, in 2019 ERC, EH Bildu and BNG they created the brand Now Republics and they got three deputies with Oriol Junqueras as a candidate.
Now Repúblicas is the successor of the old coalitions ‘The Left for the Right to Decide’ and ‘The People Decide’. Although the coalition is made up of parties from different territories, the axis of its political proposal is based on the demand for the right of self-determination for Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia. Also the co-official status of Catalan, Basque and Galician as languages of the institutions of the European Union.
It is a coalition of nationalist and independence parties with leftist ideology, now also together with Ara Més. Polls predict that this candidacy will win between two and three seats. In these 2024 elections, the candidate is Diana Riba, belonging to ERC. In the European Parliament she was a member of the Committees on Culture and Education, on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.
Riba has called for filling the MEPs of the European Parliament with Catalans and alludes to the writer Joan Fuster’s quote of “politics either you do it or they do it to you.” “We want to continue protecting our rightswe want to continue protecting the planet and continue fighting for freedom,” he expressed.
The candidate has asked for “massive participation” and to continue insisting on the connection between the European institution and the Catalan citizen.
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