Canarian Nationalist Party

The Nationalist Canary Party (Spanish: Partido Nacionalista Canario, PNC) is a nationalist political party in the Canary Islands.[1] Its current headquarters are in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife.

Canarian Nationalist Party
Partido Nacionalista Canario
LeaderJuan Manuel García Ramos
Founded30 January 1924
Refounded in 1982
HeadquartersC/. Bernabé Rodríguez 13, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
IdeologyCanarian nationalism
Political positionCentre
National affiliationCEUS (2019–2024)
Regional affiliationCanarian Nationalist Federation (1999–2007)
Agreement of Nationalist Unity (2006–2023)
ColoursWhite, blue, yellow and green
Canarian Parliament
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Congress of Deputies (Canarian seats)
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Spanish Senate (Canarian seats)
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Party flag
Website
pnc-canarias.eu
The Cuban PNC adopted the 1907 "Ateneo Flag", which was the first Canarian nationalist flag.

Precedents

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The first PNC (CNP) was founded in Havana, Cuba on 30 January 1924, by Jose G. Cabrera Díaz, a Canarian journalist who became president of the party. He had been a trade union leader of Canary workers. On 5 August 1900, they had founded the Working Canary Association. In the 1920s, Díaz left his working-class roots to defend the interests of the middle class. Though the Cuban PNC proclaimed itself as inheritor of Secundino Delgado's thought, the party ideology was far away from the near to anarchism ideas of national and social liberation by Delgado.

The newspaper El Guanche, founded in 1897, was a primary supporter of the party. The party adopted its proposition for the flag of an independent Canaries state, the "Flag of the Ateneo" (also called "Secundino's Flag"), that is to say, with seven white stars on a blue background arranged to match the position of the country's various islands.

History

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In 1982, the newly created PNC held its first congress in the Canary Islands. The party adopted as symbols the 1970s MPAIAC flag, apart from the "Ateneo Flag", as well as some of the Cuban PNC political positions.

In 1993, the party merged with others to form Canarian Coalition (CC), but left the group in 1998. In 2003, after tensions between the militants and the direction, a splinter group formed another "Partido Nacionalista Canario", known as PaNaCa, which accused PNC of betraying its nationalist reivindications.[2] Finally, PaNaCa joined CC.

Electoral performance

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Parliament of the Canary Islands

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Election Island constituencies Regional constituency Seats +/– Government
Votes % Votes %
1991 7,845 1.1 (#6)
0 / 60
  0 Extra-parliamentary
1995 Within CC
1 / 60
  1 Coalition
1999 Within FNC
0 / 60
  1 Extra-parliamentary
2003 Within FNC
0 / 60
  0 Extra-parliamentary
2007 Within CCa–PNC
0 / 60
  0 Extra-parliamentary
2011 Within CCa–PNC
0 / 60
  0 Extra-parliamentary
2015 Within CCa–PNC
1 / 60
  1 Coalition
2019 Within CCa–PNC
1 / 70
  0 Opposition
2023 2,472 0.3 (#14) 2,317 0.3 (#13)
0 / 70
  1 Extra-parliamentary

Cortes Generales

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From 2006 to 2023, the PNC participated in the Agreement of Nationalist Unity alliance with the Canarian Coalition. As part of the alliance, the party contested elections to the parliament of Spain, the Cortes Generales. The alliance was dissolved in 2023 and did not contest that year's election, with the PNC arguing that the CC had now "nothing of nationalism". The following results are for the coalition as a whole, not solely the PNC.

Election Canary Islands delegation to the Cortes Generales
Congress Senate
Vote % Score Seats +/– Seats +/–
2008 174,629 17.49% 3rd
2 / 15
 1[a]
1 / 11
 2[a]
2011 143,881 15.47% 3rd
2 / 15
 0
1 / 11
 0
2015 81,917 8.24% 5th
1 / 15
 1
1 / 11
 0
2016 78,253 7.99% 5th
1 / 15
 0
1 / 11
 0
2019 (Apr) 137,664 12.97% 5th
2 / 15
 1
0 / 11
 1
2019 (Nov) 123,981 13.12% 4th
2 / 15
 0
0 / 11
 0
  1. ^ a b Compared to Canarian Coalition totals in the 2004 general election.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Lansford, Tom (2021-05-31). Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021. SAGE Publications. p. 2011. ISBN 978-1-5443-8473-3.
  2. ^ Ruel, Teresa (2020-09-30). Political Alternation in the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands. Springer Nature. p. 84. ISBN 978-3-030-53840-8.