Más País

Más País (English: More Country) is a political party and electoral platform formed by Íñigo Errejón around Más Madrid in order to contest the November 2019 Spanish general election.[1] The platform was announced on 22 September 2019 and was formally launched on 25 September, out of a desire of preventing dissatisfaction from centre-left voters over the failure in the government formation process between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos to translate into a higher abstention rate.[2][3] During the party's presentation, Errejón announced that it would avoid running in the smaller constituencies, where they would be unlikely to win any seat but could contribute to other left-of-centre parties—mainly PSOE and UP—losing out their own seats due to vote splitting.[4]

Más País
LeaderÍñigo Errejón
Founded25 September 2019 (2019-09-25)
Preceded byMás Madrid
IdeologyProgressivism
Eco-feminism
Participatory democracy
Eco-socialism
Green politics
Political positionCentre-left to left-wing
Colours     Emerald
     Dark green
Congress of Deputies
3 / 350
Senate
1 / 265
Website
maspais.es

On 26 September, it was revealed the platform had reached a tentative agreement with Equo in order to run jointly in a number of constituencies,[5] a choice subsequently ratified by a majority of party members the next day,[lower-alpha 1] in practice meaning the end of the Equo collaboration with Unidas Podemos despite some members, such as Juan López de Uralde, announcing their will to remain within Pablo Iglesias's coalition while leaving the party.[6][7][8] On 27 September, the platform was joined by Podemos Region of Murcia leaders Óscar Urralburu and María Giménez, the party's only elected members in the Regional Assembly of Murcia, who subsequently left Podemos and their regional seats amid criticism of its national leader Pablo Iglesias.[9][10][11]

On 30 September 2019, just before the deadline for the registration of electoral coalitions, Más País legally took the form of a renaming of Más Madrid, while also modifying the latter's territorial scope from the Madrid region to a country-wide level.[12][13] The political party registered two-way coalitions before the electoral authorities with Compromís ("Més Compromís"; in the constituencies of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia) and Equo (in Madrid, A Coruña, Pontevedra, Murcia, Asturias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas, Biscay, Cádiz, Granada, Málaga and Seville) as well as a three-way coalition with Chunta Aragonesista and Equo in Zaragoza.[12]

On 4 October 2019 it was announced that Carolina Bescansa, one of the Podemos co-founders, would be joining the party as their lead candidate for the constituency of A Coruña,[14] a move which prompted further defections from Podemos' branch in Galicia into Más País.[15]

Alternative logo of Más País, with background.

On 7 October 2019, also just before the deadline for the registration of single-party lists, the party collected the minimum amount of signatures (amounting to 0.1% of the electoral census) to run as a newly created stand-alone party in Barcelona and the Balearic Islands.[16]

Electoral performance

Cortes Generales
Election Congress Senate Leader Status in legislature
Vote % Score Seats +/– Seats +/–
Nov 2019 577,018[17] 2.40% 7th
3 / 350
 3
0 / 208
 0 Íñigo Errejón Confidence and supply

Elections

Coalitions and regional denominations

Coalitions

For the November 2019 Spanish general election, according to the official models of constitution of electoral coalitions presented before the Central Electoral Board, these were the political parties/federations that are members of said territorial coalitions:

Name Acronym
Más País Más País[18]
Equo Equo
Coalició Compromís Compromís
Chunta Aragonesista CHA
Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz[19] IPA

Regional denominations of the candidacies
Regional denominations - November 2019 general election
Logo Name Acronym Electoral districts
Más País[20] Más País Barcelona and Balearic Islands (Mallorca to the Senate)
Más País-Equo[21] Más País-Equo Madrid, Murcia, A Coruña, Pontevedra, Asturias,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas
Más País-Candidatura Ecologista Biscay
Más País-Andalucía Cádiz, Granada, Málaga and Seville
Més Compromís[22] Més Compromís Alicante, Castellón and Valencia
Más País-Chunta Aragonesista-Equo[23] M.País-CHA-Equo Zaragoza

See also

Notes
  1. 58.7% in favour of joining Más País, 25.9% in favour of remaining in Unidas Podemos and 15.4% in favour of the party contesting the election on its own, with a 33.3% turnout.[6]

References
  1. "Errejón ya tiene marca para presentarse a las elecciones: concurrirá el 10 de noviembre con Más País". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  2. "El partido de Errejón decide presentarse el 10-N". El País (in Spanish). 22 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  3. "Errejón se presenta al 10-N y promete poner sus diputados al servicio de un gobierno progresista". El País (in Spanish). 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  4. "Errejón formaliza su candidatura al 10-N aclamado por la militancia de Más País". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  5. "Más País y Equo llegan a un preacuerdo para presentarse en diez provincias". El País (in Spanish). 26 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  6. Piña, Raúl (27 September 2019). "Primera ruptura en Unidas Podemos: Equo decide aliarse con Más País de Íñigo Errejón". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  7. "Las bases de Equo deciden concurrir al 10N con Más País y Uralde y otros dirigentes abandonan el partido". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  8. "López de Uralde abandona Equo tras la decisión de concurrir con Errejón en las elecciones generales". 20minutos.es (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  9. "El exlíder de Podemos Murcia confirma que encabezará la lista de Más País por la región". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  10. "Los dos diputados autonómicos de Podemos en Murcia se pasan al partido de Errejón". El País (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  11. "Primer golpe de Íñigo Errejón a Pablo Iglesias: le 'roba' la dirección de Podemos en Murcia". El Mundo (in Spanish). 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  12. "Más País concurrirá a las generales en 16 provincias". www.rtve.es. RTVE. 3 October 2019.
  13. "Más Madrid cambia su nombre a Más País". www.lavanguardia.com. La Vanguardia. 30 September 2019.
  14. "Carolina Bescansa encabezará la lista de Errejón por A Coruña". El País (in Spanish). 4 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  15. "La candidatura de Bescansa con Más País provoca bajas en Podemos Galicia". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 5 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  16. Asuar Gallego, Beatriz (7 October 2019). "Errejón competirá contra Colau en Barcelona". Público.
  17. Including results of Más País-Equo, Més Compromís and Más País alone.
  18. Más País. Registro de Partidos Políticos, Ministerio del Interior.
  19. Profundizamos nuestra colaboración con Más País Andalucía-Equo. Iniciativa del Pueblo Andaluz, 2019.
  20. "Candidatura proclamada de MÁS PAÍS - Junta Electoral Central" (PDF). pp. 38, 54.
  21. "Coalición electoral MÁS PAÍS-EQUO - Junta Electoral Central".
  22. "Coalición electoral MÉS COMPROMÍS - Junta Electoral Central".
  23. "Coalición electoral MÁS PAÍS-CHA-EQUO - Junta Electoral Provincial de Zaragoza" (PDF).
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