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Democratic Pact for Catalonia

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Democratic Agreement for Catalonia
Pacte Democràtic per Catalunya
LeaderJordi Pujol
FoundedMay 3, 1977 (1977-05-03)
Dissolved1978
HeadquartersBarcelona
IdeologyCatalan nationalism

The Democratic Agreement for Catalonia (Template:Lang-ca) was a Catalan electoral coalition that contested the Spanish general election on June 15, 1977 for the Congress of Deputies. It was officially registered on May 3, 1977,[1] and focused his speech on the need to approve a statute of autonomy for Catalonia. The coalition was integrated by:[2]

It obtained 514,647 votes (16.68% of the vote in Catalonia, 2.81% of the votes in Spain) and 11 deputies, of which 5 were for CDC, 4 for PSC-R and 2 of EDC. His leader was Jordi Pujol. Shortly after the elections the coalition broke: the PSC-R joined the PSOE and the PSC-C to form the PSC, while CDC (in which EDC was merged in 1978) joined Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) to form Convergence and Union (CiU).

References

  1. ^ "Con la formación de siete coaliciones se clarifica el panorama catalán". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 4 May 1977. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Coaliciones de ámbito regional". ABC (in Spanish). 5 May 1977. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Cataluña: domina la autonomía". ABC (in Spanish). 25 May 1977. Retrieved 14 April 2016.