Canarian Nationalist Party Explained

Country:Spain
Canarian Nationalist Party
Native Name:Partido Nacionalista Canario
Leader:Juan Manuel García Ramos
Foundation:30 January 1924
Refounded in 1982
Headquarters:C/. Bernabé Rodríguez 13, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ideology:Canarian nationalism
Position:Centre
Regional:Canarian Nationalist Federation (1999–2007)
Agreement of Nationalist Unity (2006–2023)
National:CEUS (2019–2024)
Colours:White, blue, yellow and green
Seats1 Title:Canarian Parliament
Seats2 Title:Congress of Deputies (Canarian seats)
Seats3 Title:Spanish Senate (Canarian seats)
Website:pnc-canarias.eu

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

Precedents

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

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

Parliament of the Canary Islands

ElectionIsland constituenciesRegional constituencySeats+/–Government
Votes%Votes%
19917,8451.1 (#6) 0
1995Within CC 1
1999Within FNC 1
2003Within FNC 0
2007Within CCa–PNC 0
2011Within CCa–PNC 0
2015Within CCa–PNC 1
2019Within CCa–PNC 0
20232,4720.3 (#14)2,3170.3 (#13) 1

Cortes Generales

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.

ElectionCanary Islands delegation to the Cortes Generales
CongressSenate
Vote%ScoreSeats+/–Seats+/–
2008174,62917.49%3rd12
2011143,88115.47%3rd00
201581,9178.24%5th10
201678,2537.99%5th00
2019 (Apr)137,66412.97%5th11
2019 (Nov)123,98113.12%4th00

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lansford, Tom . Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021 . 2021-05-31 . . 978-1-5443-8473-3 . 2011 . en.
  2. Book: Ruel, Teresa . Political Alternation in the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands . 2020-09-30 . Springer Nature . 978-3-030-53840-8 . 84 . en.