Democratic Pact for Catalonia
Democratic Pact for Catalonia Pacte Democràtic per Catalunya | |
|---|---|
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| Leader | Jordi Pujol |
| Founded | May 3, 1977 |
| Dissolved | 1978 |
| Headquarters | Barcelona |
| Ideology |
Catalan nationalism Catalan autonomism |
| Political position | Big tent |
The Democratic Pact for Catalonia (Catalan: Pacte Democràtic per Catalunya, PDC or PDpC) was a Catalan electoral coalition that contested the Spanish general election on June 15, 1977 for the Congress of Deputies. It was officially registered on May 3, 1977,[1] and focused his speech on the need to approve a statute of autonomy for Catalonia. The coalition consisted of:[2]
It obtained 514,647 votes (16.68% of the vote in Catalonia, 2.81% of the votes in Spain) and 11 deputies, of which 5 were for CDC, 4 for PSC-R and 2 of EDC. Its leader was Jordi Pujol. Shortly after the elections the coalition broke: the PSC-R joined the PSOE and the PSC-C to form the PSC, while CDC (in which EDC was merged in 1978) joined Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) to form Convergence and Union (CiU).
Member parties
Electoral performance
Congress of Deputies
| Congress of Deputies | |||||||
| Election | Spain | Catalonia | Status | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vote | % | Seats | Vote | % | Seats | ||
| 1977 | 514,647 (#6) | 2.81 | 11 / 350 |
514,647 (#4) | 16.88 | 11 / 47 |
Opposition |
References
- ↑ "Con la formación de siete coaliciones se clarifica el panorama catalán". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 4 May 1977. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ↑ "Coaliciones de ámbito regional". ABC (in Spanish). 5 May 1977. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ↑ "Cataluña: domina la autonomía". ABC (in Spanish). 25 May 1977. Retrieved 14 April 2016.