Asturias Forum

Asturias Forum
Foru Asturies
President Carmen Moriyón
Secretary-General Adrián Pumares
Founder Francisco Álvarez-Cascos
Founded 19 January 2011
Split from People's Party
Newspaper El Hormiguero
Youth wing Foro Joven (Young Forum)
Membership (2011) 6,987[1]
Ideology Conservatism[2]
Regionalism[2]
Political position Centre-right[3]
Colors Dark blue
Congress of Deputies (Asturian seats)
1 / 8
Spanish Senate (Asturian seats)
1 / 6
Asturian General
Council
3 / 45
Local Government
83 / 942
Website
foroasturias.es

The Asturias Forum (FAC) (Spanish: Foro Asturias, Asturian: Foru Asturies) is a regionalist[2] political party in the Principality of Asturias.

History

Asturias Forum was founded in January 2011 by former Deputy Prime Minister Francisco Álvarez Cascos, who left the People's Party (PP) after failing to be selected as the party's candidate for President of Asturias in the 2011 election.

In the Asturian election, Álvarez Cascos led the party under the name "Citizens' Forum" (Spanish: Foro de Ciudadanos). FAC won sixteen seats, making it the largest party on the General Council. Together with the PP, FAC's gains gave the centre-right a majority in Asturias for the first time.[4] The party has spoken to all three other parties to create a more consensual political climate.[5]

At the November 2011 Spanish election, the party won one of Asturias's eight seats in the Congress of Deputies.

After months of deadlock in the Asturian regional assembly, fresh elections were held, in which FAC lost 4 seats, becoming the second largest party behind the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

On February 12, 2015, Francisco Álvarez-Cascos surprisingly announced he would not stand again as Asturias Forum's candidate and resigned to the presidency of the party.[6] Álvarez-Cascos was succeeded by Cristina Coto, while he went on to become the party's secretary-general.

After the resign of Cristina Coto due to differences with Álvarez Cascos, Carmen Moriyón, mayoress of Gijón, was elected new President of the party on 29 September 2018.[7]

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales

Asturias

Congress of Deputies
Date Votes Seats Status Size Notes
# % ±pp # ±
2011 92,828 14.7% — — Opposition 3rd
2015 187,568 30.1% N/A 0 Opposition * government support
2016 209,632 35.3% +5.2 0 Opposition * government support
  
Senate
Date Seats Size
# ±
2011 — 3rd
2015 1 *
2016 0 *

General Junta of the Principality of Asturias

Date Votes Seats Status Size
# % ±pp # ±
2011 178,031 29.7% — — Government 1st
2012 124,518 24.8% –4.9 4 Opposition 2nd
2015 44,283 8.2% –16.6 9 Opposition 5th

European Parliament

Spain
Date Votes Seats Size
# % ±pp # ±
2014 32,962 0.2% — — 18th
  
Asturias
Date Votes Size
# % ±pp
2014 16,064 4.2% — 6th

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Foro Asturias valida a 6.987 afiliados con derecho a voto para su congreso constitucional. El Comercio, 26/02/2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Parties and Elections in Europe, "Spain", The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck". Parties & Elections. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Campo, E. (23 May 2011). "El centro derecha, a las puertas". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  4. ↑ Mencía, J. E. (25 May 2011). "Cascos gana las elecciones y la derecha obtiene mayoría absoluta por primera vez". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  5. ↑ Ordóñez, José A. (25 May 2011). "Cascos llama a PSOE, PP e IU a un "consenso básico", inspirado en los pactos de la Moncloa". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  6. ↑ Cascos renuncia a encabezar la candidatura de su partido en las elecciones regionales; El Comercio, 12 February 2015 (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ "Carmen Moriyón, nueva presidenta de Foro Asturias" [Carmen Moriyón, new president of Asturias Forum] (in Spanish). La Nueva España. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.


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