Communist Party of Andalusia

Communist Party of Andalusia (in Spanish: Partido Comunista de Andalucía) is the federation of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in Andalusia.

History

PCA was founded in 1979, as the Andalusian branch of PCE was converted into a regional party.Menéndez Gijón, Manuel Ángel, and Ignacio Fontes. . Foca investigación, 21. Madrid: Foca, 2002. p. 71Chaffee, Lyman G. . Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1993. p. 45 The party supported autonomy for Andalusia, and called for a 'yes'-vote in the 1980 referendum on autonomy.Mellado Morales, Juan de Dios, and Antonio Ramos Espejo. / ed. Juan de Dios Mellado Morales. Dir. Antonio Ramos Espejo, 5. Granada: C&T Editores, 2005. p. 100 During this phase it worked in cooperation with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party at the municipal level. At the time, Fernando Soto was the general secretary of PCA.Checa Godoy, Antonio, Carmen Espejo Cala, and María José Ruiz Acosta. . Ciencias de la comunicación, 5. Sevilla: Secretriado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2007. p. 154

PCA contested the 1982 Spanish parliamentary election, obtaining 211,456 votes (6.19% of the votes in Andalusia). The party was able to elect one parliamentarian to the Congress of Deputies, from the electoral district of Seville.

In the 1983 municipal...
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