Catalan Parliament election, 1999

Catalan Parliament election, 1999

Elections to the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Spain, were held on October 17, 1999.

Background

Afterwards of 19 years of a Convergence and Union government, this elections expected a big change in a Catalonia Government.

In the past 1995 elections, Convergence and Union lost the absolute majority, but in the parliament voting it was won, because the People's Party of Catalonia and the Socialists' Party of Catalonia abstained in the voting.

In the 1995 elections Initiative for Catalonia Greens and Socialists' Party of Catalonia were have to run separately, but in this elections be formed a party coalition, except in Barcelona.

Parties

* CiU (Convergence and Union). Presidential candidate: Jordi Pujol. Union of the Catalan nationalist, fiscally liberal Democratic Convergence of Catalonia and the conservative Democratic Union of Catalonia.

* PSC-CpC-ICV* (Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Citizens for Change-Initiative for Catalonia Greens). Presidential candidate: Pasqual Maragall i Mira. Social democratic and ecologist. The PSC are affiliated to the Spanish Socialist Party, (PSOE), and ICV in United Left (IU).

* ERC (Republican Left of Catalonia). Presidential candidate: Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira. Catalan republican and independentist, left-wing.

* PPC (People's Party of Catalonia). Presidential candidate: Alberto Fernández Díaz. The main party of the centre-right in Spain.

* ICV (Initiative for Catalonia Greens). Presidential candidate: Rafael Ribó. Green (eco-socialist) and leftist.

* EUA (United and Alternative Left). Presidential candidate: Antoni Lucchetti. Communist and member of the main communist party of Spain, United Left.

Results

General

Lleida

Tarragona

*Only in the provinces of Girona, Lleida, Tarragona.


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